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Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to them. It’s growing in popularity because it’s really effective. Hackers have noticed how effective it is and have began skimming credit cards from websites. Guest Thanks to Yonathan Klijnsma from RiskIQ. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by Linode. Linode supplies you with virtual servers. Visit linode.com/darknet and when signing up with a new account use code darknet2019 to get a $20 credit on your next project. Support for this episode comes from Honeybook. HoneyBook is an online business management tool that organizes your client communications, bookings, contracts, and invoices – all in one place. Visit honeybook.com/darknet to get 50% off your subscription. This episode was sponsored by CMD. Securing Linux systems is hard, let CMD help you with that. Visit https://cmd.com/dark to get a free demo. Visit darknetdiaries.com for full show notes and transcripts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In October 2015, Carlos, a Florida man, was manufacturing credit cards skimming devices.
0:09.2	These are little devices you can stick on a gas pump, and anyone who comes and swipes
0:13.2	their credit card at the gas pump will get their number saved to this little device.
0:17.5	It's a popular attack because not everyone is watching the gas pumps, so you can easily
0:21.9	sneak your skimmer onto it.
0:24.0	It's hard to sneak a skimmer onto a like a point of sale terminal in a store because
0:27.4	the clerk is standing right there.
0:29.5	The gas pumps are usually standing right there in the open for anyone to just go use.
0:36.2	Carlos' skimmers were slick.
0:37.6	They were small, battery-powered, and can store up to a gigabyte of data on them.
0:42.1	You stuck one on a gas pump and came back a few days later, and plugged a USB cable into
0:47.8	it and downloaded all the credit card data off there.
0:50.6	This is called track data.
0:52.7	This was amazing for Carlos.
0:54.7	So now that one skimmer seemed to be working pretty well, Carlos started planting more
0:59.3	and more skimmers all over Miami, Florida.
1:02.6	Then he'd come back, hook up a USB cable, and download all the card track data.
1:07.7	Carlos thought this was great, but now what?
1:10.5	How do you turn the track data into money?
1:13.5	He thought about this.
1:14.6	One could try selling the track data online, but you don't get that much for each card.
1:20.1	Carlos was, after all, a DIY kind of guy.
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