![]() According to the experts at Kaspersky Lab, Russian criminal organizations have stolen roughly $790 Million over three years (from 2012 to 2015), more than $500 million of that is from victims located outside the Russian. Security experts consider the Russian underground the most important ecosystem for online crimes, its operators offer every kind of illegal products and services. Meanwhile, the Canadian underground is focused on the sale of fake/stolen documents and credentials (fake driver’s licenses and passports, stolen credit card and other banking information, and credit “fullz” or complete dumps of personal information). It is visible to both cyber criminals and law enforcement. The North American underground is the most open to novices. The fact that Germany and North America more strictly implement cybercrime laws may have something to do with their greater reliance on the Deep Web, too.”įigure 1 – Underground communities (TrendMicro Report) This could, however, be due to the fact that the “ great firewall” of China prevents its citizens (even the tech-savviest of its cybercrooks) from accessing the Deep Web. Chinese cybercriminals, for instance, do not rely on the Deep Web as much as their German and North American counterparts do. Infrastructure and skill differences affect how far into the Deep Web each underground market has gone. “Cybercriminals from every corner of the world take advantage of the anonymity of the Web, particularly the Deep Web, to hide from the authorities. The Russian underground hosts the most important black markets that offer escrowing services or “garants” on their products that make them an important aggregator for the criminal demand offering a privileged environment where to operate anonymously. Marketplaces like fe-ccshop.su and Rescator that offer products and services for credit card frauds are very popular in the criminal underground worldwide. Brazil is more focused on banking Trojans while Japan tends to be deliberately exclusive to members.” states the report. The Chinese market, meanwhile, boasts of robust tool and hardware development, acting as a prototype hub for cybercriminal wannabes. It acts as the German market’s “big brother” as well in that it greatly influences how the latter works. The Russian underground, for instance, can be likened to a well-functioning assembly line where each player has a role to play. “Each country’s market is as distinct as its culture. The Russian underground is considered “a well-functioning assembly line,” it is an ecosystem crowded by professional sellers that are competing by providing goods in the shortest amount of time and most efficient manner possible. The researchers at TrendMicro, who analyzed illegal activities in the Deep Web have identified at least six different cybercriminal ecosystems operating in Russia, Japan, China, Germany, in the United States and Canada ( North America), and Brazil. The German criminal underground heavy relies on DarkNets the most popular forums use mirrors on the Tor Network. The Brazilian criminal underground is populated by young criminals specialized in products and services to hit online banking platforms and its users this is not surprising because of the strong propensity of Brazilians in using the Internet banking.Ĭontinuing our tour, we will approach the US market that presents many similarities with that Russian one, other communities of interest are the Japanese one that is rapidly growing, and the German one that many experts consider a subsidiary of the Russian underground. Meanwhile, the Chinese criminal ecosystem is the most popular for everything concerning mobile frauds and it is focused on the provisioning of hardware for several illegal activities. Security experts consider the Russian underground as the most prolific, at least concerning hacking and payment card frauds.
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