Joker’s laughing: Fresh database of half a million Indian payment card records on sale in the Dark Web

“INDIA-BIG-MIX” (full name: [CC] INDIA-BIG-MIX (FRESH SNIFFED CVV) INDIA/EU/WORLD MIX, HIGH VALID 80-85%, uploaded 2020-02-05 (NON-REFUNDABLE BASE)”

If you’re wondering what this seemingly random set of words mean, that is how a fresh database of 461,976 payment card records currently on sale on Joker’s Stash, a popular underground cardshop in the dark web has been listed.

Group-IB, a Singapore based cybersecurity company specialising in preventing cyber attacks which detected the database, says that over 98% of this database on sale were cards issued by Indian banks.