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One in five Magecart-infected stores get reinfected within days

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

Online stores that have been infected with the Magecart malware –known to record and steal credit card details from checkout forms– often get reinfected after clean-up operations, a recent report has revealed.

“In the last quarter, 1 out of 5 breached stores were infected (and cleaned) multiple times, some even up to 18 times,” said Willem de Groot, a Dutch security researcher and the creator of MageReport, an online malware and vulnerability scanner for online stores.

Read more on ZDNet.

In related news, Zack Whittaker reports, Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups you’ve never heard of.

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