On top of selling malware, renting botnets, or launching denial-of-service attacks, supplying falsified documents is another well-paid online activity. One popular document for criminals is a passport. The following website offers a large choice classified by countries. The lowest price (US$870) is for Azerbaijan. A French passport cost US$5,530. A customer must send the forgers personal information as well as a signature and a photo, and they take care of the rest.
The site also offers a large collection of credit cards (sold 10 at a time) with balances ranging from US$2,000 to US$15,000. Some Platinum cards are guaranteed up to US$50,000.
To make these documents criminals need not only the financial data they can obtain via the usual phishing strategies; they also need more personal data. To get it, they target online and offline locations where this information is available. To protect yourself, you need to remain aware of what you give away on your social networking platform as well as what you toss into your household trash.
Western bloggers note that most orders come from Russia. But every user of such services can become a victim of phishing, or be detained by police. -25D-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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