clonCards dark web

clonCards dark web The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access.^[1][2][3][4] Through the dark web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user’s location.^[5][6] The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web.^[7][2][8]

The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals.^[6] Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature.^[9] The Tor dark web or clonCards dark web uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network’s top-level domain suffix .onion.

UniCC, the biggest dark web marketplace for stolen credit and debit cards, has announced that it’s shuttering its operations after earning $358 million in purchases since 2013 using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and Dash.

“Don’t build any conspiracy theories about us leaving,” the anonymous operators of UniCC said in a farewell posted on dark web carding forums, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. “It is [a] weighted decision, we are not young and our health do[es] not allow [us] to work like this any longer.”

The UniCC team also gave its users 10 days to spend their balances, while also warning customers to “not follow any fakes tied to our comeback.”

Platforms such as UniCC function as an underground marketplace wherein credit card details stolen from online retailers, banks, and payments companies by injecting malicious skimmers are trafficked in exchange for cryptocurrency. The cards are then used by criminal actors to purchase high-value items or gift cards.