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Magecart Threat Group Racks Up More Hack Victims

The threat group has racked up a list of victims including Feedify, Groopdealz and British Airways. Days after Magecart adversaries were blamed for the British Airways breach, the threat group was ... read more

Magecart Group Targets Shopper Approved in Latest Attack

The breach also impacted hundreds of Shopper Approved’s customers. The notorious Magecart threat group has struck again, this time attacking Shopper Approved – a piece of third-party software ... read more

What is Magecart? How this hacker group steals payment card data

Hacking groups that make up Magecart are effective and persistent at stealing customer and payment card data through skimmers. Here's how they work and what you can do to mitigate the risk. read more

Feedify becomes latest victim of the Magecart malware campaign

At the time of this article's publication, the feedbackembad-min-1.0.js was, once again, infected with the Magecart card-stealing code. Feedify did not respond to a request for comment from ZDNet. read more

Macy’s Magecart breach presages Christmas fraud spike

In the run up to the festive shopping season, US department store chain Macy’s has become the latest high-profile victim of Magecart, with personal data on an undisclosed number of its customers ... read more

Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups you’ve never heard of - TechCrunch

There have been few hacker groups that have been responsible for as many headlines this year as Magecart. Nobody knows those attacks better than Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at security ... read more

Magecart group linked to Dridex banking Trojan, Carbanak

An active Magecart scheme has ties to Dridex phishing campaigns and the Carbanak group, indicating that skimmer scripts may be a prelude to more traditional malware use, researchers say. On ... read more

New year, same hacking: Blue Bear Software and Focus Camera the latest Magecart victims - SiliconANGLE

New year, same hacking, and this time Blue Bear Software and Focus Camera Inc. are the latest victims of Magecart attacks.Magecart is a form of attack that hijacks customer information at the poin ... read more

How Hackers Slipped by British Airways' Data Defenses | WIRED

Security researchers have detailed how a criminal hacking gang used just 22 lines of code to steal credit card info from hundreds of thousands of British Airways customers. read more

Newegg fell victim to month-long card skimming hack - Engadget

It's not just British companies succumbing to large-scale payment data breaches in recent weeks. RiskIQ and Volexity have discovered that hackers inserted Magecart card skimming code into Newegg's ... read more

Magecart skimmers seen targeting routers for customer Wi-Fi networks

Threat researchers at IBM X-Force IRIS have spotted activity by a known group of criminal Web malware operators that appears to be targeting commercial layer 7 routers—the type typically ... read more