http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/15/roll_up_come_see_the_booming_hacker_bazaar/
By John Leyden
The Register
15 Dec 2014
Underground hacker markets are booming with counterfeit documents,
premiere credit cards, hacker tutorials, and "complete satisfaction
guarantees", according to a new report from Dell SecureWorks.
The means to create a false identity are easily purchased through the
cracker bazaars. A fake social security card can be obtain for around
$200, with supporting documents as additional proof of ID offered for an
additional charge.
Between December last year and this June, over 1,500 fake driver’s
licences were purchased from a criminal network monitored by Dell
researchers at a net cost of $232,660.
Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit (CTU) director of malware research
Joe Stewart and SecureWorks network security analyst David Shear completed
a similar study of the underground hacker market last year. They revisited
the hacker underground to see if prices for stolen credit cards, fullz (a
dossier of an individual's credentials which can be used to commit
identity theft and fraud), bank accounts, and hacker services had gone up
or down in price.
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