STYX, Supermarket for Cybercriminals

Earlier this year, a new marketplace named STYX surfaced on the dark web and is progressing toward becoming a thriving center for exchanging illegal services. The marketplace provides all of the tools and services malicious actors need to facilitate every aspect of their criminal lifecycle.

The range of services provided tools, malicious services and data for their criminal acts include:

1. Identity theft

2. Anti Anti-Fraud tools, Fingerprint Emulators and Spoofers

3. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)

4. MFA / 2FA Authentication Bypass

5. Malware and Phishing Distribution Frameworks

6. Email, SMS, and Telephone Flooding

7. Fake IDs, Forged Documents, Stolen IDs, On-demand Identity Lookups and other personal data

8. Credit cards and PII data

9. Malicious actor support services include

   1. Money Laundering

   2. Cash-out Services

   3. Training and Tutorial

Acreto’s Patented Ecosystem model addresses the myriad tools and methods used by malicious actors while eliminating complexity or even the addition of deployment steps. Acreto uses the patented Ecosystem model that isolates systems, applications, users and devices from the Internet as well as other internal systems.

The Ecosystem model has many advantages including:

1. Eliminating Internet and internal access to all systems, applications and devices which eliminates access to the attack surface, preventing exploitation of vulnerabilities.

2. It further eliminates the potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks that facilitate MFA bypass campaigns that are more and more prevalent today.

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