Ecommerce Security
Pirated WordPress Plugins Bundled with Backdoors
One widespread belief among webmasters is that attackers typically only compromise websites in a couple of ways: by exploiting vulnerabilities or stealing login credentials. Although these are certainly two of the more ...
Evasion Tactics in Hybrid Credit Card Skimmers
The most common type of Magento credit card stealing malware is client-side JavaScript that grabs data entered in a checkout form and sends it to a third-party server controlled by the attackers ...
WordPress Malware Collects Sensitive WooCommerce Data
During a recent investigation, our team found malicious code that reveals how attackers are performing reconnaissance to identify if sites are actively using WooCommerce in a compromised hosting environment. These compromised websites ...
PinnacleCart Server-Side Skimmers and Backdoors
While open-source ecommerce platforms are the most common targets for web skimmers, hackers also target paid-for software — especially if it’s used on high-profile online stores with large user-bases. This time, our ...
Analysis of a WordPress Credit Card Swiper
While working on a recent case, I found something on a WordPress website that is not as common as on Magento environments: A credit card swiper injection. Typically this type of malware ...
3-D Secure SMS-OTP Phishing
One of our remediation analysts Eli Trevino recently discovered a phishing page informing victims about fake Netflix service disruptions, supposedly due to problems with the victim’s payment method. The phishing page prompts ...
Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019
The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities to massively ...
Fake AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart
Our malware analyst Liam Smith recently found malware on a client’s site that targets ecommerce sites powered by AmeriCommerce software. A popular ecommerce software solution that allows users to run multiple carts ...
Malicious JavaScript Used in WP Site/Home URL Redirects
Our team recently found a malicious JavaScript injection within the WordPress index.php theme file on a compromised WordPress website which ultimately redirects site visitors to a survey-for-gifts scam website. At this time ...
Zen Cart “PayPal” Skimmer
While we mostly see skimmers on Magento based websites, this does not mean that less-popular ecommerce platforms are safe from infections with similar payment information stealing malware. We recently found a case ...
