"Warning over Boom in Web Skimming Cyber Crime Targeting Online Stores"

The security firm, Malwarebytes, has issued a warning to ecommerce companies about an increase in Magecart attacks that target online payments systems. Magecart is made up of sophisticated hacking groups that perform web-based card-skimming attacks to steal credit card numbers. According to Malwarebytes, 65,000 web-skimming Magecart data theft attempts were blocked in July. This article continues to discuss the growth, methods, targets, and alleged perpetrators of Magecart attacks, along with the difficulty of identifying the groups behind web-skimming attacks. 

Computing reports "Warning over Boom in Web Skimming Cyber Crime Targeting Online Stores"

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