Finjan discovers website offering volume purchase of stolen credit cards

By Janine de Blois

“If further proof were needed that there is a very serious problem facing the card acceptance and processing industry, this is it,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan.

“Prices are segmented depending on whether a card is a Classic Visa or MasterCard, a premium account such as a Gold, Platinum or Business/Corporate card and its country of issue.

Prices typically range from $38 per set of card data for premium card accounts in small volumes, going down to $10 for Classic card data in volumes of 100 or more.

Customers are also being offered a trial set of data, as well as a guarantee on account details that do not work.” The method of payment for this? Why, credit card, of course.

It is no longer random hackers that are the serious danger on the internet. It is obviously organized criminals behind this and other sites that Finjan’s research team has discovered.

Last month the team discovered a database of more than 8,700 stolen File Transfer Protocol (FTP) credentials including username, password and server address.

Many of these stolen accounts were from global Fortune-level companies and some from government agencies. Finjan’s Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) publishes its finds online. It’s server appears to be very busy as of late.