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New credit-card skimmer uses postMessage to make malicious process look authentic to victims to steal payment data. Continue reading Magecart Attack Convincingly Hijacks PayPal Transactions at Checkout
The Magecart spinoff group targeted the wireless service provider in an odd choice of victim. Continue reading Boom! Mobile Customer Data Lost to Fullz House/Magecart Attack
A campaign discovered by Malwarebytes Labs in mid-April has lifted credentials from a number of e-commerce portals. Continue reading Credit-Card Skimmer Has Unlikely Target: Microsoft ASP.NET Sites
The Magecart group targeted the tween accessories specialist starting the day after it shuttered its retail locations due to coronavirus. Continue reading Claire’s Customers Targeted with Magecart Payment-Card Skimmer
Scammers disguised two domains as a content delivery network (CDN) in an attempt to quietly target visitors with a credit card skimmer. Malwarebytes noticed something suspicious within the website code of a Parisian boutique store. At first, the script… Continue reading Scammers Disguise Two Domains as CDN to Cloak Credit Card Skimmer
Credit cards are loaded with security features, but the game of cat and mouse goes on. Nefarious syndicates continue to develop technology to steal data in new and innovate ways. After SparkFun did a teardown on some illicit hardware, they were visited by local law enforcement, who requested their help …read more
Continue reading Credit Card Skimmers Evolve – Shimmers Are Here
A credit-card skimmer on Magento sites was found loading JavaScript from a legitimate-seeming Google Analytics domain. Continue reading ‘Google’ Sites Are the Latest Ploy by Card-Skimming Thieves
So far, 2019 shows no signs of a decline in data incidents. Continue reading 2019 Already Marred By Slew of Data Breach Incidents
Last week we reported on some work that Sparkfun had done in reverse engineering a type of hardware card skimmer found installed in gasoline pumps incorporating card payment hardware. The device in question was a man-in-the-middle attack, a PIC microcontroller programmed to listen to the serial communications between card reader and pump computer, and then store the result in an EEPROM.
The devices featured a Bluetooth module through which the crooks could harvest the card details remotely, and this in turn provides a handy way to identify them in the wild. If you find a Bluetooth connection at the pump …read more
We’ve all heard of card skimmers, nefarious devices that steal the identity of credit and debit cards, attached to ATMs and other machines in which unsuspecting consumers use them. Often they have relied on physical extraction of data from the card itself, such as by inserting a magnetic stripe reader in a fake ATM fascia, or by using a hidden camera to catch a picture of both card and user PIN entry.
The folks at Sparkfun write about an approach they received from a law enforcement agency bearing a selection of card skimmer devices that had been installed in gasoline …read more
