One thing to add: This is one group, with 21,000 cards per month (that we know about) and law enforcement estimates about $500.00 per card in average loss. At that rate, in 3 months, one carding group causes $10,500,000.00 in loss. And this carding group is at the low end of the totem poll.
Lance James wrote: > Hi all, > > We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global > Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that > lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can > see, it's obvious who the top credit card companies are out there, but > at the same time, we can see an ever increasing on the top targets but > not necessarily an increase on the lower tiers over the entire three > months, but in the first two we see a significant increase in success > with stolen credit cards in general. In this case, the loss that we > captured (which probably isn't nearly the number captured by this forum) > was a little over 21,000 credit cards. > > Thought this might interest some, and if this is interesting, we are > going to be providing a graph of the losses of top targets with malware > in the upcoming weeks. > > Attached is the chart. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General-discussion mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mal-aware.org/mailman/listinfo/general-discussion > -- Best Regards, Lance James Secure Science Corporation www.securescience.net Author of 'Phishing Exposed' http://securescience.net/home/news/phishingexposed.html ********************************************** * New IntelliFound Service 2 weeks free * * Real-Time Identity Surveillance Service * * https://slam.securescience.com/signup.cgi * ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
