‘Anti Detect’ Helps Thieves Hide Digital Fingerprints
Summary: Krebs on Security describes Antidetect, a crimeware tool at version 6.0.0.1 sold on underground forums that lets thieves alter browser type, version, language, user agent, Flash version, plugins, OS and processor type, time zone and screen resolution to defeat browser fingerprinting. A seller video shows a user generating a fresh browser configuration, proxying through a compromised system in Ontario, matching the time zone, buying a stolen Ontario card and spending more than $200 on downloadable games at Origin.com, with the full cycle taking about five minutes.
What's compelling: Krebs expects card-not-present fraud to spike as more US banks issue chip cards, citing the same increase after chip transitions in Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom - and a five-minute reset means one stolen card is no longer one attempt against your fingerprint checks.
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