All Your Cards Are Belong To Us: Understanding Online Carding Forums

摘要: Underground online forums are platforms that enable trades of illicit services and stolen goods. Carding forums, in particular, known for being focused on trading financial information. However, little evidence exists about the sellers present carding precise types products they advertise, prices buyers pay. Existing literature mainly focuses organisation structure forums. Furthermore, studies usually based review, expert interviews, or data from have already been shut down. This paper provides first-of-its-kind empirical active where is traded. We monitored 5 out 25 discovered collected posts over a three-month period, analysed them quantitatively qualitatively. our analyses products, prices, seller prolificacy, specialisation, reputation.