Researchers have uncovered more than 70 Facebook groups openly selling black-market cyberfraud services, some of which they say had been running for up to 8 years. - bpopken
Researchers uncovered more than 70 Facebook groups openly selling black-market cyberfraud services, some of which they say had been running for up to eight years.
Facebook's recommendation system appeared to amplify the issue. After the researchers joined video game cheat groups, they found that Facebook began suggesting they join groups advertising more serious cybercriminal activity. But NBC News was able to find Facebook hosting other groups still active. Some of them had names that were the same as those flagged by the researchers, or only slight variations thereof. After being notified by NBC News, Facebook investigated and took these groups down as well.“Hi, Im looking any botnet, for steal bank info,” read a post in a group called “BotNet,” referring to networks of compromised digital devices that can be remotely controlled to execute malicious actions.
Law enforcement action has shut down some dark-web sites, and encouraged other operators to consolidate or sell their forums, according to Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black, a digital security company. It’s unknown how many of the postings resulted in successful transactions or whether some of the services were themselves fraudulent. Some of the posts the researchers found showed replies back and forth between accounts purporting to be sellers and potential buyers.
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