Website Security News
Our latest posts on website security issues that impact ecommerce sites, including tips for keeping client data secure. Learn about PCI compliance and emerging threats against ecommerce platforms such as Magento, Prestashop, Woocommerce, and OpenCart.
While unpatched installations of Magento 2 contain many vulnerabilities, I’m going to focus my attention on Magento 1 for this article. This is because Magento 2 provides regularly updated patches for many of the most common vulnerabilities targeting the platform. While Magento 1 also contains…
During a recent investigation into a compromised Magento ecommerce environment, we discovered the presence of five different backdoors that would provide attackers with code execution capabilities. The techniques used by…
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers and selling them on the…
Read More about Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation
In my previous post about ecommerce credit card swipers I described the general overview of the online ecommerce environment as well as some of the reasons behind why websites become…
Read More about Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 2
Many clients that we work with host and operate ecommerce websites which are frequent targets of attackers. The goal of these attacks is to steal credit card details from unsuspecting…
Read More about Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 1
Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus software such as Kaspersky and…
Read More about WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal malicious behaviour and harvest sensitive information from ecommerce websites. A recent investigation for a compromised Magento 2 website revealed a malicious injection…
Read More about Magento 2 PHP Credit Card Skimmer Saves to JPG
A Magento website owner was concerned about malware and reached out to our team for assistance. Upon investigation, we found the website contained a PHP injection in one of the…
Read More about Magento PHP Injection Loads JavaScript Skimmer
We recently found an interesting phishing kit on a compromised website that has QR code capabilities, along with the ability to control the phishing page in real time. What our…
Read More about Real-Time Phishing Kit Targets Brazilian Central Bank
A few weeks ago, I was manually inspecting some files on a compromised website. While checking on a specific WooCommerce file, I noticed something interesting. Among 246 other lines, this…
Read More about Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor
According to W3Tech’s data, PrestaShop is among the most popular CMS choices for existing ecommerce websites, so it should come as no surprise that malware has been created to specifically…
Read More about PrestaShop SuperAdmin Injector and Login Stealer
