Security → The Cybercrime Black-Market, 'Uncovered'

The State of Cybercrime
by Jolie O'Dell

How much does it cost to buy a stolen credit card number on the black market? What about renting a botnet or setting up a fake online store designed to steal user identities?

Cybercrime involving stolen credit card numbers, money laundering, botnets and other black-hat activities is a huge business online. A new report from PandaLabs uncovers the going price for some of the most popular kinds of cybercrime, and most Internet users would be surprised at the numbers behind common forms of online crime
»press.pandasecurity.com/ ··· rket.pdf
»mashable.com/2011/01/20/ ··· g-stats/

Some of these companies are getting by without any disadvantages to loosing this data either. Specifically talking about credit cards I found mine was replaced "due to another company having the number stolen" yet the credit card company said they can't tell me the name of the company. If I knew that company, I wouldn't do business with them again.