In the Russian-language internet, a spike in the sale of fake bank-card databases for Bitcoin has been recorded.

On March 23, in the .ru zone, several dozen domain names of sites appeared offering fake databases of bank cards. This was first reported by the Telegram channel In4security.

Twenty-three domains contain the word CVV; most are formed by combining words such as shop, store, valid and dump in various variants. In total, experts counted about 50 domain names involved in the scheme.

To acquire the databases, a deposit of $50 is requested to be sent to a Bitcoin wallet. However there is no cryptographic protocol for secure data transfer on these sites.

“What is particularly striking is the absence of an SSL certificate and the conspicuous errors in the text, such as the word ‘Accaunt’,” said In4security.

Cybersecurity experts said that in this case scammers are trying to fool other scammers, profiting from inexperienced carders.

The upsurge in such fraud may be linked to the closure of major darknet marketplaces.

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