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.
We were recently contacted by a Magento website owner who had been blacklisted and was experiencing McAfee SiteAdvisor “Dangerous Site” warnings. Our investigation revealed that the site had been infected with a credit card skimmer loading JavaScript from the malicious internationalized domain google-analytîcs[.]com (or xn--google-analytcs-xpb[.]com…
Read More about Fake Google Domains Used in Evasive Magento Skimmer
The final actor of the stolen payment data supply chain is the end user. Rather than just selling or reselling payment data, the end user plans on fraudulently monetizing it….
Read More about Stolen Payment Data: Infected Ecommerce Website to Darknet Markets
A malicious PHP script, aptly given the name “Magento Killer” by its creator(s), has been found targeting Magento websites. While it doesn’t actually kill the Magento installation, it does allow…
These days, the majority of store owners opt-in for the easiest closed-source ecommerce platform options. For the most part, these platforms typically allow users to customize a template, as well…
Read More about Closed Source E-commerce Platforms Can Be Compromised
We have recently published posts regarding banking malware and some of the ways it uses compromised websites to infect victim’s devices (smartphones, computers, POS terminals). Now let us look into…
Read More about How Stolen Ecommerce Data is Sold on the Darknet
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. Welcome to the final post to conclude our series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 12 – Maintain an Information Security Policy
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. Welcome to the seventh post of a series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Over the last few months, we’ve noticed several credit card-stealing scripts that use variations of the Google Analytics name to make them look less suspicious and evade detection by website…
Read More about Google Analytics and Angular in Magento Credit Card Stealing Scripts
Credit card stealing malware is becoming more and more customized. We’ve been regularly seeing injected scripts with URLs that either mimic or include a portion of the victim’s site domain….
Read More about Localization and Customization of Credit Card Stealing Malware
As we take a step back and think about how much the Internet has grown over the past 20 years, we realize how much content/data has been made available to…
Every year we see an increase in website attacks during the holidays. While business owners see their sales go up due to promotional Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns, hackers…
Read More about A Scam-Free Cyber Monday for Online Businesses
