Recently launched E-shop sells access to hundreds of hacked PayPal accounts

By Dancho Danchev

Largely relying on sophisticated and legitimate-looking phishing campaigns, next to active data mining of a botnet's infected population, today's cybercriminals are in a perfect position to monetize these fraudulently obtained assets in the form of compromised accounts.

From compromised social networking accounts, to direct access to compromised servers and desktop PCs, the market segment has been steadily growing over the past couple of months.

In this post I'll profile a newly launched cybercrime-friendly E-shop selling access to compromised accounts belonging primarily to PayPal users, but also, compromised accounts belonging to Apple, Walmart, Ebay and Skype users.

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Sample screenshot of the newly launched service selling hundreds of PayPal accounts:

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