Credit card skimming is once again threatening users following an incident that hit about 500 e-commerce websites.
According to the latest report, the hackers will install a device that can take away confidential information whenever a web guest purchases a product.
Hackers Use Credit Card Skimmers to Install Malware
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Credit card skimming is once again threatening users following an incident that hit about 500 e-commerce websites.
The latest fraud alerted the cybersecurity researchers to act on the up-to-date incident involving Magecart. Simply, this term refers to the hacking tactic of the criminals wherein they inject malicious code on the checkout page.
Upon entering the details during purchase, they will use credit card skimmers to steal information from the users. The malicious code will redirect the people to infected systems.
Security firm Sansec was the first to report the compromised websites that contain malicious scripts. According to the cybersecurity organization, the codes came from naturalfreshmall(.)com.
On Twitter, the researchers tweeted out that the scammers will rely on the Natural Fresh skimmer which will show a bogus popup for the product payment. In addition, the payments will go to the domain mentioned earlier.
Besides that, the scammers will now modify the files or recreate new documents to pave the way for the backdoors. These backdoors will then be used to…
