New Phishing Scam Uses LiveChat to Pose as Amazon and PayPal in Real Time

Cofense researchers warn of a phishing scam where attackers use LiveChat to impersonate Amazon and PayPal agents and steal credit card and MFA codes...

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Chinese Groups Stole 115 Million US Cards in 16-Month Smishing Campaign

A SecAlliance report reveals Chinese smishing syndicates compromised 115M US payment cards by bypassing MFA to exploit Apple Pay and Google Wallet...

From Cloudflare Bypass to Credit Card Theft

Introduction On July 6, 2025, a suspicious Python package called 'cloudscrapersafe' was uploaded to the Python Package Index PyPI. Marketed as a utility to evade Cloudflare’s anti-bot protections, this package was a modified version of a widely used 'cloudscraper' library, which is used to automa...

New WordPress Malware Hides on Checkout Pages and Imitates Cloudflare

Wordfence exposes a sophisticated WordPress malware campaign using a rogue WordPress Core plugin. Active since 2023, it steals credit cards and credentials with advanced anti-detection...

Hackers Exploit Stripe API for Web Skimming Card Theft on Online Stores

Cybersecurity researchers at Jscamblers have uncovered a sophisticated web-skimming campaign targeting online retailers. The campaign utilizes a legacy…...

Macs targeted by infostealers in new era of cyberthreats

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. These are the dangers of “infostealers,” which have long plagued Windows devices but, in the...

Cybercriminals Exploit Onerror Event in Image Tags to Deploy Payment Skimmers

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a credit card stealing malware campaign that has been observed targeting e-commerce sites running Magento by disguising the malicious content within image tags in HTML code in order to stay under the radar. MageCart is the name given to a malware that's...

Hackers Use CAPTCHA Trick on Webflow CDN PDFs to Bypass Security Scanners

A widespread phishing campaign has been observed leveraging bogus PDF documents hosted on the Webflow content delivery network CDN with an aim to steal credit card information and commit financial fraud. "The attacker targets victims searching for documents on search engines, resulting in access ...

New PhishWP Plugin on Russian Forum Turns Sites into Phishing Pages

SlashNext has discovered a malicious WordPress plugin, PhishWP, which creates convincing fake payment pages to steal your credit card information, 3DS codes, and personal data...

Some weeks in security (December 16 – January 5)

During the holiday period on Malwarebytes Labs we covered: A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus Lock and Code S05E26 Task scams surge by 400%, but what are they? 5 million payment card details stolen in painful reminder to monitor Christmas spending AI-generated malvertising "whi...

Ghost Tap: Hackers Exploiting NFCGate to Steal Funds via Mobile Payments

Threat actors are increasingly banking on a new technique that leverages near-field communication NFC to cash out victim's funds at scale. The technique, codenamed Ghost Tap by ThreatFabric, enables cybercriminals to cash-out money from stolen credit cards linked to mobile payment services such a...

WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites

Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites that are capable of harvesting credit card data. The campaign, observed by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, entails the abuse of a WordPress plugin called Dessky Snippets, which...

Hackers Exploit Magento Bug to Steal Payment Data from E-commerce Websites

Threat actors have been found exploiting a critical flaw in Magento to inject a persistent backdoor into e-commerce websites. The attack leverages CVE-2024-20720 CVSS score: 9.1, which has been described by Adobe as a case of "improper neutralization of special elements" that could pave the way f...

Novel Smishing Kit Leverages Cloud Platform

Summary: SNS Sender, a malicious Python script that leverages AWS SNS for mass SMS spamming, presents a novel approach to cloud-based attack tools, particularly in the area of smishing. The ARDUINODAS threat actor is linked to the operation that uses this cloud capability to send out a lot of...

Malicious 'SNS Sender' Script Abuses AWS for Bulk Smishing Attacks

A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services AWS Simple Notification Service SNS. The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims'...

Rogue WordPress Plugin Exposes E-Commerce Sites to Credit Card Theft

Threat hunters have discovered a rogue WordPress plugin that's capable of creating bogus administrator users and injecting malicious JavaScript code to steal credit card information. The skimming activity is part of a Magecart campaign targeting e-commerce websites, according to Sucuri. "As with...

A week in security (September 25 - October 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Dependabot impersonators cause trouble on GitHub Update Chrome now! Google patches another actively exploited vulnerability Googles Bard conversations turn up in search results Malicious ad served inside Bing's AI chatbot Pegasus spyware and how it exploited a WebP...

Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign

A global phishing campaign caught our attention after one of our colleagues was targeted by, and nearly fell victim, to a social engineering attack. The campaign involved more than 800 different scam domains and impersonated around 340 legitimate companies all over the world – including well-know...