Security News > 2021 > December > XE Group exposed for eight years of hacking, credit card theft
A relatively unknown group of Vietnamese hackers calling themselves 'XE Group' has been linked to eight years of for-profit hacking and credit card skimming.
The threat actors are thought to be responsible for the theft of thousands of credit cards per day, mainly from restaurants, non-profit, art, and travel platforms.
Volexity was able to map the infrastructure used by the XE Group in the last three years and shared all the technical details and IOCs on GitHub.
Su forum where they offered stolen credit card information.
"The persona used for the GitHub and carding account, and several of the domains, have a history going back to 2013, which suggests the attacker may have been attempting similar attacks for up to eight years, with only one significant public mention of their activity," explained Volexity.
Defenders can block XE Group attacks using the provided network indicators or detect the threat using these signatures.