More than 1,300 phishing kits are being sold on the hacker forum

Recently, an anonymous hacker was reported to have pocketed a total of more than $ 30,000 after successfully selling a huge collection of over 1,300 phishing kit on a hacker forum. quite famous. This includes a large amount of data related to the world's leading websites, banks, and financial institutions.

Specifically, at an average price of $ 25 for each fraudulent kit, hackers will make at least $ 32,500 if all of this data is sold. Even the amount of this illicit profit may be greater depending on the number of buyers.

According to the ad, each of these fraudulent kits (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a separate ZIP archive, and the size of the entire data warehouse including 1,300 sets after being compressed is 3.3GB.

Among the targets these fraudulent kits are aimed at, can be shown a list of a series of popular services with a large number of high-value users such as PayPal, Dropbox, Amazon, OneDrive, Office 365, Outlook, Gmail, Spotify, Netflix, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, First Bank, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn and many other large businesses / brands.

According to international security experts, 90% of these tools are collected using separate manufacturing scripts for the purpose of collecting illegal information. Checking the archives list, security experts found some 'interesting' kits such as '16Shop' to hack Apple and Amazon accounts, support at least 10 different languages, or XaouFi. Target PayPal accounts.

Although the data in most of these fraudulent kits can be collected on the internet - according to the seller's post - 1,300 is an impressive number and most likely has hidden value data in it.

At $ 25, this scam kit doesn't seem to be of the best quality. In 2019, each fraudulent kit sold for an average of $ 304, the lowest price was $ 20, and the most expensive one could go up to $ 880.