The hardest part of cybercrime is the cashout. The strategy for cashing out needs to be easy enough to make it worth your while and safe enough to stay out of the clink. With more and more focus on identifying and stopping credit card fraud, cybercrooks are diversifying their methods for cashing out. While criminals can, and do, sell whole and bundled online retailer accounts, credit card data, and fullz, I want to look at how they get their grubby paws on that cold hard cash. Let’s dig into the tools, techniques, and procedures used by this new generation of e-launderers and cyber hustlers.
Benjamin Brown currently works on incident response, systems architecture review, adversarial resilience, and threat intelligence at Akamai Technologies. He has degrees in both Anthropology and International Studies. Research interests include deepweb ethnographic studies, novel and side-channel attack vectors, radio systems, the psychology and anthropology of information security, metacognitive techniques for intelligence analysis, threat actor profiling, and thinking about security as an ecology of complex systems.