Rescator

Rescator is the name of a Ukrainian hacker specialising in the sale of credit card details. According to Russian cyber-security consultancy Group-IB, "Rescator" (AKA Helkern and ikaikki) runs his own marketplace at octavian.su and uploaded over 5 million card details onto the SWIPED carder marketplace.[1]

Credit card details have been stolen from places like Minnesota and the United Kingdom,[2] the website allows searches by zip code so that stolen card numbers can be cashed out more locally to their victim to avoid alerting banks.[3] Unlike the now defunct Tor Carding Forums, the site is free to use, payments requiring direct Bitcoin payments to sellers without escrow features more common on darknet markets.[4] Many of the stolen details from the Target,[5] Home Depot[6] and Sally Beauty[6] data breaches ended up at the site.

In March 2014 the site was briefly defaced by a rival hacker.[7] The site is protected from DDoS attacks by CloudFlare.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Leyden, John (16 October 2014). "Hacker-hunters finger 'Keyser Soze' of Russian underground card sales". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. ↑ White, Geoff (6 November 2014). "Thousands at risk from credit card fraud website". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Montemayor, Stephen (2 August 2015). "Out-of-state criminals bring cloned credit card schemes to Twin Cities". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  4. ↑ KIELL (11 December 2014). "A Carder's First Experience". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Schwartz, Mathew J. (5 September 2015). "Banks Reacting Faster to Card Breaches". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 Krebs, Brian (May 2015). "Deconstructing the 2014 Sally Beauty Breach". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Underground Payment Card Store Rescator Hacked and Defaced". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Yadron, Danny (29 September 2014). "CloudFlare Pushes More Encrypted Web". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Kovacs, Eduard (17 March 2014). "Underground Payment Card Store Rescator Hacked and Defaced". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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