Administrative phobic? No convincing payslip to present to a future landlord? Try the French black markets. In a report released Tuesday, the researcher Cedric Pernet examines the French cyber networks and draws a portrait of this ecosystem and its special features. If it proves less extensive and organized its Russian-speaking or American counterparts, it is nonetheless alive and evolving.
"Unlike more developed markets places such as China or Russia, the French underground market is relatively small and has only 40,000 criminals, generating between 5 and 10 million euros a month according to figures from the gendarmerie and the police national "explains the researcher. The French cybercrime does not really based on open marketplaces and ruling says the report, but several very closed communities and difficult access that are competing without thank you, up to attack each other to steal adherents.
The absence of large platform has led to the establishment of autoshop, small custom shops run by cybercriminals who used to sell their services. Similarly, atomization of the French market cybercriminal leaves room to mechanisms "escrow," where trusted third parties are called in to ensure that both parties to a transaction are receiving monies promised. A function usually enforced by the black market platforms, but that seems more developed here.
A shortcut for paperwork
A climate of suspicion exacerbated the researcher Trend Micro's report highlights. But the atmosphere is not the only specificity of the ecosystem of cyber crime to the French. As often members of these underground communities adapt to the specificities of the country where they operate. And one of the French specifics, it is the weight and complexity of administrative procedures.
But if you need a shortcut, supply is present as explained Cedric Pernet: false invoices, false registration cards, counterfeit checks are proposed on different platforms. Some also offer resell points allowed to drive, or more original, PTT passes replicas. These provide access to many buildings and are held by the factors, but are also sold on the French sites, which also offer amateurs a 3D model to oneself print his key. Convenient.
There are also services that allow you to open a bank account without necessarily have all the necessary paperwork: operators behind these ads take care of everything, even to send one of their associates in your place for appointments -you. All for about 700 euros, 400 if you decide to follow the online published guides on these communities.
The success of pen gun
Other French specificity: the arms market. Like their foreign counterparts, the French illegal marketplaces count of selling arms deals, but French sellers usually avoid military escalation and the big guns for their prefer more concealable versions, the French legislation is particularly strict on this.
knives We thus find that, when folded, can easily impersonate a benign credit card or, again a French specificity, pens guns. The National Police announced earlier this year the seizure of several guns of this type, which take the form of pens, but conceal a gun capable of firing bullets caliber rifle 22. Long. A trade that is found on the French platforms, according to Trend Micro where these are sold for about 150 euros. "There is also heavier weapons, but they cost more, between 700 and 1800 euros. Probably because of the legal framework that prohibits the wearing of such weapons on French territory, "said Trend Micro.
A good French offer but Cedric Pernet said that the main trends in cybercrime are also found on the French scene. The ransomware are present, and the sale of Remote Administration Tool, as well as classics such as carding (stolen credit cards) or the malware anonymization tools. But entirely French productions are rare and many buyers abroad provide for this type of commodity, says the researcher for Trend Micro.
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