Tag: web skimming
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VB2019 paper: Inside Magecart: the history behind the covert card-skimming assault on the e-commerce industry
Magecart is an umbrella-term for various groups that engage in placing JavaScript code on e-commerce sites to steal credit card info. Magecart attacks go back almost a decade but it became an infosec household name following some prominent breaches in 2018. Magecart is getting a lot of attention from security researchers, and RiskIQ ‘s Yonathan…
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VB2019 preview: Inside Magecart: the history behind the covert card-skimming assault on the e-commerce industry
Half a decade ago, breaches of point-of-sale (POS) systems were a real plague, especially in North America, with the 2013 Target breach perhaps the best known example. Though credit card theft through POS hacks hasn’t completely disappeared, today’s skimmers largely act online, using JavaScript to insert skimmers into websites’ payment pages. The more than a…