Access listing
The IAB's ad format: industry, country, revenue, access level and price. Everything except the victim's name, which is disclosed to serious buyers in private.
Why it matters to you
"Bank, $500M revenue, AD admin" narrows to very few companies. Fluency in reading listings is how analysts spot their employer without the name.
Where we meet it
The anonymity is thinner than the brokers think. Sector, country, revenue band, employee count and access level, taken together, usually narrow to single digits, which is why we let you watch the shape of a listing rather than a company name.
Connected terms
Initial Access Broker (IAB)
A specialist who breaks into organizations and sells the access (VPN, RDP, domain admin) instead of using it. The wholesale layer between opportunistic infection and targeted ransomware.
Garant
A forum-appointed escrow who holds payment until the goods check out. Criminal marketplaces run on reputation systems and dispute arbitration: trust infrastructure for people who trust no one.
Dedik
A compromised dedicated server or RDP host, rented out as anonymous infrastructure. The underground's cloud computing, billed to someone else.
Vouch
A public endorsement from an established member that a seller delivered. Vouches accumulate into standing, standing sets price, and a lost reputation is the only real penalty most of these markets can impose.
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Where this term stops being vocabulary
Dragnet is where you watch it happen to you
Knowing the word is the cheap half. The platform is the half where the term arrives attached to your domain, with a timestamp and the source it came from.
More from the trade
Bot shop
A marketplace that sells the output of one infected machine as a single unit: its cookies, saved passwords, browser fingerprint and time zone, packaged so a buyer can load the lot into an antidetect browser and resume the victim's sessions.
Carding
The trade in stolen payment card data and the craft of turning it into goods: testing cards, choosing merchants, shipping to reshippers. An economy with its own schools, slang and reputations.
Cashout
The last mile: turning stolen access, cards or balances into money the criminal keeps. Gift cards, crypto, mule accounts, reshipping, each with its own fee and its own specialists.
Cloud of logs
A subscription Telegram channel that pours out fresh stealer logs daily to paying members. Bulk access to victims, sold like a streaming service.