An introduction to 11 fraud methods and services used by cybercriminals, including fraud tutorials, drops and mules, dating scams, online retail fraud, SIM swapping, money laundering, botnets, hospitality fraud, PII/PHI sales, tax return fraud, and bank fraud.

Checkers and brute forcers are popular tools sold on the criminal underground that enable unskilled cybercriminals to launch automated credential-stuffing and brute-force attacks against organizations, profiting from stolen financial and personal data.

Recent Insikt Group research explores the tools and services used by threat actors to automate tasks associated with malicious campaigns.

Insikt Group used the Recorded Future Platform, proprietary sources, and underground forum analysis to provide deeper insight into the operations of two sophisticated disinformation vendors on Russian-speaking underground forums.