{"id":85464,"date":"2020-02-21T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:28:21","slug":"credit-debit-card-details-of-4-lakh-indians-up-for-sale-on-darknet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/credit-debit-card-details-of-4-lakh-indians-up-for-sale-on-darknet\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit, debit card details of 4 lakh Indians up for sale on darknet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to Singapore-based cybersecurity company,around 98% of sensitive credit card details that are there on the darknet are of Indian customers.These details could have been stolen through phishing, malware or JS-sniffers.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phishing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malware:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Malware (malicious software) refers to any kind of software that is designed to cause damage to a single computer, server or computer network.<\/li><li>It is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive malicious software including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and ransomware among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JavaScript or JS-Sniffers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>JavaScript or JS-Sniffers are programmes used for stealing credit and debit card information from e-commerce websites.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Under this,instead of physically attaching a device to an ATM, a JS sniffer uses a few lines of code injected onto an e-commerce site to skim data that consumers use to buy goods.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to Singapore-based cybersecurity company,around 98% of sensitive credit card details that are there on the darknet are of Indian customers.These details could have been stolen through phishing, malware or JS-sniffers. Facts: Phishing: It is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/credit-debit-card-details-of-4-lakh-indians-up-for-sale-on-darknet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Credit, debit card details of 4 lakh Indians up for sale on darknet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2813,2345],"class_list":["post-85464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-js-snippers","tag-phishing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704799718},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}