Gozi and the Subscription Hacking Model

Form-grabbing Trojans have evolved to become the basis of a vibrant service economy for criminal hackers. In one of the cleverest schemes, two hackers created 76service, a subscription model for stealing identities. Here we take a tour of that service and other elements of this underground world.

Form-grabbing Pioneers

Corpse is the handle of the hacker who wrote influential form-grabbing software. Here (viewed using Babelfish), another hacker named Sash relays news of Corpse's "curtailment of activity" on a site that sells a Trojan called Pinch.