The denizens of online forums dedicated to trading in stolen credit cards have been shown to be wretched hives of scum and villainy.
This not-so-surprising news comes this week via academics at Washington State University (WSU) in the US, who eavesdropped on the activities of two marketplaces and read over 10,714 posts to those discussion boards.
What they found was miscreants, from newly-registered accounts all the way up to the admins, are constantly trying to get one over on one another.
We're told only a small fraction of the crooks lurking on the boards were commercial traders buying and selling stolen cards for cybercrime use. Far more frequent were accounts that were looking for handouts – things like free credit-card lists, malware tools, and tutorials.
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