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The largest site for the sale of professional tools for phishing has ceased to exist.
The Interpol International Police Organization recently conducted a global operation to eliminate the popular PhaaS platform among cyber intruders called « 16shop », which has been operating in the dark for about six years.
During the operation, a 21-year-old Indonesian was arrested, accused of administering the platform, as well as two other persons involved in its work — one also lived in Indonesia and the other in Japan. The police confiscated electronic devices and a number of luxury goods belonging to the suspect, and the functioning of the platform itself was disrupted.
According to Group-IB, which also participated in the operation, tools for hacker attacks of 16shop have been distributed in clandestine forums since November 2017 and have been sold to more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. These tools helped fraudsters trick Internet users through phishing emails and steal their personal or bank data for subsequent theft of funds.
Fishing kits were aimed at stealing credentials and payment details of users of popular services such as Apple, PayPal, American Express, Amazon and Cash App. Many of them sold at a relatively modest price of — from 60 to 150 dollars, depending on the target brand. For example, the Amazon kit was almost $ 90 cheaper than for American Express.
According to Group-IB, more than 150,000 phishing domains were created using 16shop tools. Platform customers attacked users in Germany, Japan, France, the USA, Great Britain, Thailand and other countries. Although the suspects lived in Asia, 16shop servers were hosted by a US-based company.
Tools of the « phishing type as a service » are especially dangerous, since they allow you to automate cyber attacks, enabling anyone to launch a phishing attack in several clicks, Interpol notes.
Even cybercriminals with basic skills in the field of hacking and programming can quickly and in large quantities deploy phishing pages using such tools as could be purchased at 16shop, experts from Group-IB emphasize.
www.interpol.int
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The Interpol International Police Organization recently conducted a global operation to eliminate the popular PhaaS platform among cyber intruders called « 16shop », which has been operating in the dark for about six years.
During the operation, a 21-year-old Indonesian was arrested, accused of administering the platform, as well as two other persons involved in its work — one also lived in Indonesia and the other in Japan. The police confiscated electronic devices and a number of luxury goods belonging to the suspect, and the functioning of the platform itself was disrupted.
According to Group-IB, which also participated in the operation, tools for hacker attacks of 16shop have been distributed in clandestine forums since November 2017 and have been sold to more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. These tools helped fraudsters trick Internet users through phishing emails and steal their personal or bank data for subsequent theft of funds.
Fishing kits were aimed at stealing credentials and payment details of users of popular services such as Apple, PayPal, American Express, Amazon and Cash App. Many of them sold at a relatively modest price of — from 60 to 150 dollars, depending on the target brand. For example, the Amazon kit was almost $ 90 cheaper than for American Express.
According to Group-IB, more than 150,000 phishing domains were created using 16shop tools. Platform customers attacked users in Germany, Japan, France, the USA, Great Britain, Thailand and other countries. Although the suspects lived in Asia, 16shop servers were hosted by a US-based company.
Tools of the « phishing type as a service » are especially dangerous, since they allow you to automate cyber attacks, enabling anyone to launch a phishing attack in several clicks, Interpol notes.
Even cybercriminals with basic skills in the field of hacking and programming can quickly and in large quantities deploy phishing pages using such tools as could be purchased at 16shop, experts from Group-IB emphasize.
Notorious phishing platform shut down, arrests in international police operation
The platform sold hacking tools to more than 70,000 users in 43 countries
www.interpol.int