Security News > 2023 > June > Darkweb credit card marts in decline across Asia, researchers claim

The number of stolen Asian credit card numbers appearing on darkweb crime marts has fallen sharply, cyber security firm Group-IB told Singapore's ATxSG conference on Thursday.

Out of 29 million compromised accounts found on sale on the dark web, over 12 million featured top level domains related to India.

Group IB found dark web credential marts had more corporate account cracks, and credit cards, sourced from China than any other nation in the region.

The Singaporean infosec firm reported its found text and data dumps containing over 213,000 APAC credit cards on sale so far in 2023, a number that is 10 times less than the amount of cards in the same period in 2022.

Over 62,000 were Australian credit cards, followed by over 29,000 from China.

A decline of credit cards on sale on the dark web while data breaches are on the rise could be interpreted as a further shifting of criminal business model away from targeting individuals and toward the potentially more lucrative targets represented by businesses, governments, and other entities.

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