U.S. law enforcement has arrested two suspected admins of the WWH-Club stolen credit card marketplace after they went on a cash spending spree in Florida.
The suspects are Russian national Pavel Kublitskii and Kazakhstan native Alexandr Khodyrev, who were arrested for their roles as administrators and moderators of the cybercrime platform WWH-Club. The two men have also had associations with other illicit platforms, including Skynetzone, Opencard, and Center-Club. As revealed in the arrest affidavit , the two moved to Florida and spent large amounts of cash without providing any evidence of employment, prompting the IRS to investigate.
A cash spending spree WWH-Club is a cybercrime forum and marketplace that has been operating since 2012 that sells stolen credit cards for use in fraud ("carding"), personal information, and information-stealing malware , and provides training to aspiring cybercriminals . The platform also operates an escrow service for cybercriminals using a cryptocurrency mixer to obscure the money trace and offers users the option to upgrade to premium accounts for perks. According to Flashpoint , as of March 2023, WWH-Club had 353,000 registered members, with about one-third of those being active within a sampled 72-hour period.
The marketplace remains operational following Kublitskii and Khodyrev's arrests. Its other administrators acknowledge the two's involvement in the platform but only as moderators. The two co-conspirators arrived in the U.
S. through .