A week in security (August 19 – 25)
A roundup of the latest cybersecurity news for the week of August 19–25, including Magecart attacks on poker software, a new Bluetooth vulnerability, continuing ransomware attacks on US cities, Bitcoin sextortion, and a look back at one researcher’s DEF CON experience.
Magecart criminals caught stealing with their poker face on
This blog post details the curious case of a web skimmer encountered in a poker application.
A week in security (July 29 – August 4)
A roundup of security news from July 29 – August 4 including Capital One breach, Lord Exploit Kit, more Magecart skimming, ATM attacks, QR code scams, and Equifax payout.
No summer break for Magecart as web skimming intensifies
Despite the heat, criminals are hard at work stealing credit card data from unaware shoppers. July marks a notable increase in web skimmer attacks over previous months.
A week in security (July 15 – 21)
A roundup of cybersecurity news from July 15–21, including the Zoom camera vulnerability, Extenbro, Sodinokibi, Magecart, and cybersecurity challenges facing the education sector.
No man’s land: How a Magecart group is running a web skimming operation from a war zone
We take a look into a Magecart group’s web skimming activities, which are relying on a bulletproof-friendly host in battle-scarred Luhansk, Ukraine to provide cover for their activities, safe from the reach of law enforcement and the security community.
Skimmer acts as payment service provider via rogue iframe
Even e-commerce sites that do not take payment information themselves can be abused by crooks. In this post, we show how a web skimmer is able to inject an artificial iframe into the checkout page to prompt users for their credit card information. Victims will only realize something’s not right when they are redirected to the real (and external) payment form.
GitHub hosted Magecart skimmer used against hundreds of e-commerce sites
Magecart threat actors upload their skimming code onto GitHub in the latest attack against Magento websites.
New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks
E-commerce sites are a hot commodity these days. We dig into how compromised PCs are helping to hack into them to inject skimmers, whether via vulnerabilities in the websites themselves or through a new malware we discovered gaining entry via brute force.
Web skimmers compete in Umbro Brasil hack
In this web skimming match between two Magecart groups, there can only be one winner.
