Magecart is a major (virtual) credit card skimming attack that has taken down the likes of British Airways and Ticket Master, among tens of thousands of other sites. It works by somehow inserting malicious software into the web server that grabs the customer’s credit card info as they enter it onto the web page. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In one research report researchers have discovered Magecart attacks affecting 17,000 web domains including some in the Alexa Top 2000. You may remember that Magecart is what took down British Airways and likely caused them to be fined 183 million Pounds by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Magecart is not a single hacker or even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Magecart malware has stolen credit card information from such high profile web sites as British Airways, Ticketmaster and Newegg. The malware works by inserting a little bit of code – usually Javascript – into the page(s) of a web site that collects credit card information. When a customer visits that page the malware collects […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hackers seem to be winning. One solution I have advocated for over the last many years to reduce credit card fraud is a technique called credit card tokenization. When a merchant accepts a credit card, that card information is immediately tokenized and that token is all that the merchant keeps. If they need to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This seems to be a recurring topic, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any better, so I will leap back into the fray. Last month Ticketmaster announced they had a breach and they led people to believe that it was isolated and that it had something to do with their software. According to RiskIQ, […]
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