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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 05 2019, @03:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-used-for-everything dept.

foxnews.com/tech/facebook-dark-web-activity

Over two billion people use Facebook to buy and sell goods, chat with each other, and post vacation pictures. Now, according to a new report by Talos Intelligence, the social network is being harnessed by Dark Web cybercriminals as a place to sell credit card information, illegal contraband, and much more.

What's even more surprising, according to experts, is that this Dark Web activity isn't that dark or hard to find -- criminals sell credit cards right out in the open. One quick search for a term like "carding" (a criminal term for selling credit cards) reveals dozens of Facebook Groups.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:52AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:52AM (#839102)

    Parent so modded. Anything else?

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:01AM (#839109)

    Yes, please. If possible, an "Idiotic" mod added to the list,
    Before "Offtopic" is so generally used that loses its meaning.

    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:24AM

      by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:24AM (#840659) Homepage

      Personally I'm hoping for "square root of -i0, spherically batshit"

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      And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.