Cyber criminals cheat each other out of millions
Mutual fraud seems lucrative: Sophos X-Ops investigation uncovers own industry in cybercrime forums in which cybercriminals cheat each other out of millions of dollars. Now there are even Darknet arbitration procedures for this. Law, order and chaos: Cyber criminals cheat each other out of millions of dollars and even take their complaints about the fraud to their own arbitration boards, reports Sophos in the first part of the four-part series "The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums". The report also describes how attackers use classic techniques, some of which are decades old, to carry out their frauds. These include…