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Crooks who peddle stolen credit cards on the Internet face a constant challenge: Keeping their shops online and reachable in the face of meddling from law enforcement officials, security firms, researchers and vigilantes. In this post, we’ll examine a large collection of hacked computers around the world that currently serves as a criminal cloud hosting environment for a variety of cybercrime operations, from sending spam to hosting malicious software and stolen credit card shops.I first became aware of this botnet, which I’ve been referring to as the “Dark Cloud” for want of a better term, after hearing from Noah Dunker, director of security labs at Kansas City-based vendor. Dunker reached out after watching I posted that featured some existing and historic credit card fraud sites. He asked what I knew about one of the carding sites in the video: A fraud shop called “Uncle Sam,” whose home page pictures a pointing Uncle Sam saying “I want YOU to swipe.”.
The “Uncle Sam” carding shop is one of a half-dozen that reside on a Dark Cloud criminal hosting environment.I confessed that I knew little of this shop other than its existence, and asked why he was so interested in this particular crime store. Dunker showed me how the Uncle Sam card shop and at least four others were hosted by the same Dark Cloud, and how the system changed the Internet address of each Web site roughly every three minutes. The entire robot network, or”botnet,” consisted of thousands of hacked home computers spread across virtually every time zone in the world, he said.Dunker urged me not to take his word for it, but to check for myself the domain name server (DNS) settings of the Uncle Sam shop every few minutes. DNS acts as a kind of Internet white pages, by translating Web site names to numeric addresses that are easier for computers to navigate. The way this so-called “fast-flux” botnet works is that it automatically updates the DNS records of each site hosted in the Dark Cloud every few minutes, randomly shuffling the Internet address of every site on the network from one compromised machine to another in a bid to frustrate those who might try to take the sites offline.Sure enough, was all it took to find a few dozen Internet addresses assigned to the Uncle Sam shop over just 20 minutes of running the script. When I let the DNS lookup script run overnight, it came back with more than 1,000 unique addresses to which the site had been moved during the 12 or so hours I let it run.
According to Dunker, the vast majority of those Internet addresses ( 80 percent) tie back to home Internet connections in Ukraine, with the rest in Russia and Romania. Bin,’ another carding shop hosting on the dark cloud service. A ‘bin’ is the “bank identification number” or the first six digits on a card, and it’s mainly how fraudsters search for stolen cards.“Right now there’s probably over 2,000 infected endpoints that are mostly broadband subscribers in Eastern Europe,” enslaved as part of this botnet, Dunker said.
“It’s a highly functional network, and it feels kind of like a black market version of. “Popeye,” another carding site hosted on the criminal cloud network.Indeed, this network does feel rather spammy. In my book, I detailed how the largest spam affiliate program on the planet at the time used a similar fast-flux network of compromised systems to host its network of pill sites that were being promoted in the junk email. Many of the domains used in those spam campaigns were two- and three-word domains that appeared to be randomly created for use in malware and spam distribution.“We’re seeing two English words separated by a dash,” Dunker said the hundreds of hostnames found on the dark cloud network that do not appear to be used for carding shops. “It’s a very spammy naming convention.”It’s unclear whether this botnet is being used by more than one individual or group. The variety of crimeware campaigns that RiskAnalytics has tracked operated through the network suggests that it may be rented out to multiple different cybercrooks. Still, other clues suggests the whole thing may have been orchestrated by the same gang.For example, nearly all of the carding sites hosted on the dark cloud network — including Uncle Sam, Scrooge McDuck, Mr.
Bin, Try2Swipe, Popeye, and Royaldumps — share the same or very similar site designs. All of them say that customers can look up available cards for sale at the site, but that purchasing the cards requires first contacting the proprietor of the shops directly via instant message.All six of these shops — and only these six — are advertised prominently on the cybercrime forum prvtzonedotsu.
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It is unclear whether this forum is run or frequented by the people who run this botnet, but the forum does heavily steer members interested in carding toward these six carding services. It’s unclear why, but Prvtzone has a Google Analytics tracking ID (UA-65055767) embedded in the HTML source of its page that may hold clues about the proprietors of this crime forum. The “dumps” section of the cybercrime forum Prvtzone advertises all six of the carding domains found on the fast-flux network.Dunker says he’s convinced it’s one group that occasionally rents out the infrastructure to other criminals.“At this point, I’m positive that there’s one overarching organized crime operation driving this whole thing,” Dunker said.
“But they do appear to be leasing parts of it out to others.”Dunker and Crowder say they hope to release an initial report on their findings about the botnet sometime next week, but that for now the rabbit hole appears to go quite deep with this crime machine. For instance, there are several sites hosted on the network that appear to be clones of real businesses selling expensive farm equipment in Europe, and multiple sites report that these are fake companies looking to scam the unwary.“There are a lot of questions that this research poses that we’d like to be able to answer,” Crowder said.For now, I’d invite anyone interested to feel free to contribute to the research. Contains a historic record of domains I found that are or were at one time tied to the 40 or so Internet addresses I found in my initial, brief DNS scans of this network.
That came up when I ran the scan for about 12 hours.If you liked this story, check out about another carding forum called Joker’s Stash, which also uses a unique communications system to keep itself online and reachable to all comers. Don,I think blacklists are not a viable solution when dealing with large amount of domains since they become unwieldy fast.
A better idea would be to disallow TTL for all newly-created domains below a fixed value (e.g., 24 hours) so that it’s easier to block and/or identify those which attempt to fast-flux. I’m sure there are many issues with this approach (AWS and other cloud vendors have lower TTLs for availability/load distribution/other legitimate reasons), this goes back to the “How to improve DNS without broad DNSSEC adoption?” discussion. Ken: When you go to a Web site, you probably don’t type in its IP address; you type in its domain name. In the case of this site, that’s krebsonsecurity.com, but it also has another address: currently 72.52.7.144.But you don’t have to know my numeric address to get to my site, even though pasting that numeric address above will also get you to my site. That’s what DNS does; it handles the lookup of “hey, where is this site” so you don’t have to. In this case, the bad guys have more or less told their sites to round-robin through a new IP every 3 minutes or so. But it doesn’t matter what IP it’s moved to.
DNS just works, and your browser gets sent to the current IP. Yeah, I would think that it won’t be too difficult for the law enforcement to run your script for about a month or so and “scrape” the full list of IPs of infected computers/botnets. It’s a finite, and somewhat smaller subset of computers. And then either notify them via their ISPs, or if such is not possible, to simply “DDoS them”, which should not be that difficult in case of residential/small business PCs, to kill this “dark cloud.” DDoS’ing in theory should alert legitimate users of those PCs to a problem, and hopefully result in reinstallation of the OS, which would wipe out the infection.
As an expat, it is getting increasingly annoying to find western websites that have blocked Chinese ips.A significant portion of the web is blocked by a firewall at this side, then for the part that isn’t I come across sites that assume I am some criminal on the basis of my ip address.Sure I can use a VPN – but that is a constant struggle and each morning when I wake I don’t know for sure that it will be working.And yes, the site may think it only has customers within it’s own country – but organizations grow, and people retain links to countries they previously lived in. I think you hit the nail on the head @Dave Horsfall.
If money is the number one reason these sites are registered and there is no penalty for allowing sites to be registered for nefarious needs these points will always be open.Botnets aside you can’t stop the Mom n Pop users clicking on links and getting infectedits damn near impossible. Tracking the offenders is most likely the best method of reducing this problem, the issue is the funding to track, investigate and prosecute these individuals is not necessarily funded by the card companies but the countries/targets of the carding scams. If the card companies had to contribute to the policing of the internet for these areas of access the resourcing issue may be lessened due to increased funding.I preface all this with a simplistic view of the world and know there are much more complex matters at stake and equal legislation in various jurisdictions causes a myriad of headaches for local, state, federal and international policing efforts.
Does it matter? So what if linux is more leet. Regular users dont care, period.
They care about compatibility and familiarity, maybe not in that order. I was curious about linux then life happened and windows does everything i need 99.8% of the time, as a normal useraka the type subject to being a bot, clicking links in emails, running files downloaded from the net, disabling noscript occasionally, pron sites, torrent sites, evej random googling for “free stuff”.i even started paying for av and firewall programs this year thinking it was a benefit(bit defender)meh, still in the air, it has been PITA occasionally. No id theft, no viruses or malware taking hold, detections cleaned, no skittish behaviour or unexplained slow downs.
Some of the comments hint at reverse proxies. My guess is that when you connect to a fast flux end point, you’re just connecting to a proxy, whose main purpose is to prevent you from identifying the actual location of the true remote server.Fwiw, modern Wi-Fi access points that use radius/whatever work similarly, they delegate all authentication to a central system, not the device to which you connect.@Brian, I’d suggest not calling it a dark cloud, to me cloud indicates hosting the underlying infrastructure.
This is more of a dark redirector. It’s probably much harder to get permission to eavesdrop on these middlemen, since some of the traffic is the private citizen traffic of the physical device owner. And if you contact that owner, they’re likely to take their machine down and clean it instead of letting you co-opt it to identify the real server address.This problem isn’t really different from the one Clifford Stoll encountered when he was trying to track down unknown intruders. You had to contact the phone company, contact the court, get a court order, initiate a trace, all before the connection broke and any evidence was lost.
Would retrieving the authoritative DNS server for these temporary domains help? Or is it actually possible for anyone – say me on my private home internet – so set up a DNS server that feeds my DNS alterations BACK into the internet? If so well then that seems broken, doesn’t it? And if not then the target here should be the authoritative DNS servers that the criminals are using is it not?PS: I realize doing that now is useless because those domains are gone.
But your script is collecting data on the currently live domains couldn’t a ‘set query=ns’ be run on them simultaneously to look for authoritative DNS servers at the time? I would say work on the at the domain registrar level, which is still problematic of course, but better than tracking ip addresses in my opinion.The dns servers resolve the ip addresses and the domain registration specifies what dns servers to use. Shut down the domain at the registrar level and you have no dns servers and carder site is no longer accessible.But that’s difficult to do,I’m sure, even for law enforcement, and especially difficult if the registrar is in a foreign country as @timeless noted in his comment: contact ISP, then Court, get Court Order, work with foreign law enforcement, etc.Thus, combatting carders site is problematic, at best. I noticed the same thing a couple of months ago when I opened up a “secure” pdf attachment from a local construction company.
I didn’t realize until I read this post that I was looking at the dark cloud. The name of the document contained a hyphen, which I didn’t know should have been a warning. It required me to log into Google Docs using my e-mail address and password. The attachment was a document about wealth management from Wells Fargo, which didn’t make sense coming from a construction company, and I noticed that the URL changed several times while the document was open. I contacted the company and learned that they had been hacked. I realized that it was a ruse to steal my e-mail address and password, so I quickly changed my password and reported the incident to Google and the FTA.
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Acronyms:. BIN: Bank Identification Number. CC: Credit Card. CCN: Credit Card Number. CVV/CVV2: Credit Verification Value (Card Security Code). SSN: Social Security Number. MMN: Mother Maiden Name.
DOB: Date Of Birth. COB: Change of Billing. VBV: Verified by Visa. MCSC: MasterCard Secure Code. POS: Point of Sale. VPN: Virtual Private Network.
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More Posts by Author.11 responses to “All About Carding (For Noobs Only) Updated 2019”. Hi Jesus,Thanks for reading the articles and query.Thumb rule of carding: Carder never buy product from hacked CC`s for himself. Always try to find out the Victims to sell the costly products in cheaper rate and get the money from them.He always hide his real identity.Your question is valid, if real carder did it for himself and entered his real details then he will get caught but the legal and case filing process will take time.i hope this clear your queries.
Let me know in case more queries:). If I buy a mobile with carding for my self and did everything correctly for not getting caught. Faked my all details etc. Then Is there a chance of still getting caught, I mean amazon still have details of my carded phone that is IMEI number and if real card owner took action then he will easily get details of order by bank and than can find me with IMEI number So I think I will be caught Please let me know if I am right or not bcoz I need to buy that and my financial condition is not good so should I take risk or nit bcoz buying a phone(actually I need a laptop for b.tech) is essential for my studies Please help.