204 The Inner Workings of Financially Motivated Cybercrime

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group recently published a research report titled, The Business of Fraud: An Overview of How Cybercrime Gets Monetized. The report describes the types of fraud methods and services currently used by threat actors to facilitate their campaigns. It provides an overview of some notable recent developments, lists some of the top vendors of these services on the criminal underground, and provides suggested mitigations for defenders to implement.  Joining us this week to discuss their findings are Recorded Future’s Kirill Boychenko and Roman Sannikov both members of the Insikt Group’s team cybercrime and underground. 

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