‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

ValidCC, a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. The proprietors of the popular store said their servers were seized as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation...

Magecart Gang Attacks Olympic Ticket Reseller and Survival Food Sites

UPDATE A faction of the Magecart threat group, Magecart group 12, has been linked to a recent digital card skimmer attack bent on stealing payment data from a slew of websites, including ones selling anything from Olympic tickets to emergency preparation kits. Over the past few weeks, the group h...

Magecart Returns with Advertising Library Tactic

The Magecart card-skimming crime conglomerate has changed up its tactics in recent campaigns, injecting malicious code into third-party Java libraries used by e-commerce websites to serve advertisements. Typically, Magecart subsidiaries tend to compromise a few targeted websites in order to...

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting... Is There a Right Time for Breach Notification?

Recently, a popular online retailer revealed a month-long data breach. Card-skimming code was found capturing customer credit card data from the payment page of its website and sending that data to what appeared to be a legitimate server with a similar domain name and a valid HTTPS certificate. T...