Personal data becomes more expensive, hacking programs become cheaper: a review of the black market

While the scandal with Sony takes all the news feeds, prices are rising in the personal data market. This is an interesting study by Dell Secureworks . For example, scan card SOC. US insurance with a name and surname costs $ 250, additional documents to them (credit card bills, etc.) - another $ 100. Fake driver's licenses are only $ 100-150. In sum, in order to “steal”, as they say, a person and get access to medical care, state programs. help or get a loan, you need a little less than $ 500.

The rise in prices, as well as the assortment of the proposed "goods", is due to the fact that more and more companies and financial organizations require confirmation of their identity in various operations. At the same time, prices for programs for remote access to a computer have decreased, mainly due to the fact that there are already many pirated versions of such programs on the Internet. This year, the programs are sold for $ 20-50, compared with last year's price gap of $ 50-250 ( according to the company Stewart & Shear ). Interestingly, such programs often contain “black moves” for their authors, which allows them to gain access to the computers of novice hackers themselves.

In addition to the programs themselves, hacking lessons are also popular - documents, presentations, videos. Lessons like "3 ways to cash out credit cards", "How to hack an ATM and get more money than usual" and "Fundamentals of carding" are offered at prices from $ 1 to $ 3.
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These products are gaining popularity, and has long been popular data from credit cards remain among the best-selling "goods". On average, this is $ 4 for cards from US, $ 8 for UK, $ 16- $ 18 for European and Asian cards (perhaps American cards are cheaper because cards with chips are not popular in America). These are dump cards with all the information except the pin code. For the most part, such data is stolen during shopping at the mass distribution points in large supermarkets.