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An affiliate program: the franchise model behind ransomware and stealer operations. The operator supplies malware and infrastructure; affiliates supply victims and split the revenue.
Why it matters to you
Affiliate drama is intelligence gold: payment disputes leak internal manuals, victim lists and builder versions into the open.
Where we meet it
When affiliates fall out with an operator, they publish. Some of the most useful primary material in our archive, playbooks and panels and victim lists, arrived as evidence in a payment dispute.
Connected terms
DLS / leak site
A ransomware group's "dedicated leak site": victim announcements, countdown timers and proof packs, published to convert embarrassment into payment.
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.
Crypt / FUD
Crypting is the service of repacking malware until antivirus engines stop recognizing it. FUD, "fully undetectable", is the advertised result, sold with a guarantee and re-crypts included.
Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)
Ransomware sold as a product: the operator builds the encryptor, the panel and the leak site, affiliates bring the victims, and the ransom splits between them. The reason a small crew can run an enterprise-grade extortion campaign.
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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
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.
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.