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. Instead, the region's bad guys have escalated their attempts to steal corporate documents – with India the prime target across the region. The …

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India could be the best target

Plenty of companies have been using India as a base of operations for Asia or have partnered with an Indian firm for services. That can lead to great backdoors hackers can break into.

Fraud detection on credit cards is getting better so it's becoming less of a lucrative target where corporate data can be a gold mine. Even something as basic as a vendor listing can be exploited for all sorts of things.