Hacker Havens: The Rise of Bulletproof Hosting Environments

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

Underground cybercrime forums – serving criminals as well as nation-state actors – continue to evolve, offering a greater range of services, from reviews of information stolen during adata breach for secrets, to using hacked corporate accounts to launder money, says Tom Kellermann, vice president of cybersecurity at security firm Trend Micro. “The underground itself has become professionalized to a level that would rival the way multinational corporations would operate with subsidiaries, and overseas,” Kellermann says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. “What you’re seeing is not only the distribution of a myriad of new services, but you’re seeing greater operational security paid to the forums themselves, more advanced attack capabilities … as well as lower prices, which allow for more criminals who are not cyber-capable to get in the game.” A recently released report from Trend Micro – Russian Underground 2.0 – estimates that there are at least 78 active cybercrime forums today worldwide with a total of 20,000 members (see Why Russian Cybercrime Markets Are Thriving). The cybercrime ecosystem, Kellermann says, is facilitated by three main capabilities: hacking tools, anonymous payment systems, as well as so-called bulletproof hosting environments, or “hacker havens,” Kellermann says. “The greatest neighborhood […]

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