Group-IB

🚨Chinese-language dark web forums and Telegram channels are flooding cybercrime ecosystems with claims of stolen data from financial institutions worldwide. Group-IB researchers dug in, and the datasets don't hold up.

After analyzing 17,000+ messages across five active sources, names and phone numbers trace back to the 2021 Facebook leak, password hashes to the 2020 Eatigo breach, assigned to entirely different individuals. These are not fresh breaches. They are repackaged old data sold as new.

The research includes sample validation walkthroughs, upstream source mapping, and identification markers organizations can use to assess similar claims.

Read the full analysis.

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