Popularity of Automated Stores in The Black Market Increase as Source Code Is Traded in “Kits”
Idan Aharoni RSA’s Speaking of Security, blogs about the trend of automated credit card stores proliferating in the fraudster underground. Historically, whenever an underground product has been packaged into a “kit”, allowing it to be easily traded and shared, there is a boom in its usage. The availability of phishing kits in the underground help prove it. Before kits were available, only fraudsters who were technically savvy were able to clone sites and set up scams. Even though cloning sites do not require deep understanding in programming or even computers in general, they still left a lot of wannabe fraudsters out of the equation. After phishing scams became easier to launch through the use of a kit, new doors opened to many unsophisticated fraudsters and not much needs to be said about the volume of phishing.
