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This Central Intelligence Agency internal wiki page, titled Hacker Jargon and approved for release on 4 September 2018, is a glossary of terms and acronyms used by hackers and cyber criminals in underground forums. It defines terms such as BIN, botnets, carding, dumps, mules, phishing, ransomware, skimming and Track 1 and Track 2 data. Most entries relate to credit card fraud and identity theft. The page was last modified in February 2016, and it does not discuss UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
(U/7FSUQ.).Hacker jargon - CIA Wiki (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06765084 (U/YFOUQ) Hacker jargon F2991. .C.1AYYi.1<_i ........................................................................... -- I I (U//FGUQ-) Overview This page is intended to define jargon and acronyms commonly used by hackers and cyber criminals while communicating in forums in the underground economy. (U/7FflU0_) Jargon and Acronyms I ACC - Account I BIN - Bank Identification Number, usually the first 6 numbers of a credit or debit card number. There are over 60,000 of these and each bank (no matter how small) usually is issued at least one. Large banks have several BINS. The BINS are how the hacker knows what type of cards he has. For example, if he collected 200 4430-40's he would advertise on the forums, "I've got 200 PNC V1sa's for Sale." I Bots/Botnets - Generally, a collection of computers (zombies) that have been compromised via worms, Trojans or backdoors, under a common command and control (C2) infrastructure, that run a variety of bot programs. Botnets are a major source of spam and can be used to deliver distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). They usually operate without the knowledge of the computer owner. The controller may be referred to as a ‘bot herder’. I BP Hosting - Bullet-proof hosting I Carder - Slang used to describe individuals who use stolen credit card account information to conduct fraudulent transactions. I Carding - Trafficking in and fraudulent use of stolen credit card account information. I Cashing - The act of obtaining money by committing fraud. This act can be committed in a variety of ways: The term can stand for cashing out Westem Union wires, Postal money orders and WebMoney; using track data with PINs to obtain cash at ATMs, from PayPal accounts, or setting up a bank account with a fake ID to withdraw cash on a credit card account. Cashiers — hired to cash out an account, including Bank insiders I CC - Slang for credit card. I Change of Billing (COB or COBs) - Term used to describe the act of changing the billing address on a credit account to match that of a mail drop. This act allows the carder full takeover capability of the compromised credit card account and increases the probability that the account will not be rejected when being used for Internet transactions. I Cracking - illegal gaining entry into a computer system or the process of discovering a password. 1 of4 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06765084 6/27/2018 2:18 P
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.