Scammers estão vendendo 3,2 milhões de registros de pagamento roubados de usuários de cartões indianos - CyberScoop - [https://www.cyberscoop.com/scammers-selling-3-2-million-payment-records-stolen-indian-cardholders/]

Scammers estão vendendo 3,2 milhões de registros de pagamento roubados de usuários de cartões indianos - CyberScoop - [https://www.cyberscoop.com/scammers-selling-3-2-million-payment-records-stolen-indian-cardholders/]: Cybercriminals have reaped a healthy profit by buying and selling on the dark web financial information that belongs to cardholders in India, according to new research. Underground forums contained 3.2 million records of stolen Indian card data last year, a 219 percent uptick from 2017, Gemini Advisory, a dark-web intelligence company, said Thursday. India now ranks third internationally when it comes to the number of stolen records for sale on the dark web, following the U.S. and U.K. “Criminals continuously search for payment cards from specific banks that provide the highest return on investment, and largely spend money only when confident that they stand to make a profit,” researchers said in a report. In the world’s second-most-populous country, fraudsters target online vendors that have weak cyberdefenses and offer access to a trove of card data. Many payment breaches go unreported in India, meaning banks are slow to stop cards from being used for fraudulent purposes, …

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