Entrepreneurial cyber-criminals are now renting out access to databases that combine log-in, passwords and other data; as a commodity service.
It was only ever a matter of time, and new research has now revealed just how far along the ‘marketing database provider’ road cybercriminals have travelled in order to curate, package and sell stolen credentials. These so-called combo lists are nothing new, of course, gathering together information from multiple breaches. What is new, however, is that entrepreneurial cybercriminals are now renting out access to these databases: Combolists-as-a-Service is thing now.