Fraud Researcher
We discovered a series of incidents where the credit card skimming attack Magecart was used to hit the booking websites of chain-brand hotels — the second time we’ve seen a Magecart threat actor directly hit ecommerce service providers instead of going for individual stores or third-party supply chains.
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After almost two years of sporadic restricted activity, the ShadowGate campaign has started delivering cryptocurrency miners with a newly upgraded version of the Greenflash Sundown exploit kit. The campaign has been spotted targeting global victims, after operating mainly in Asia. Background of the Greenflash Sundown exploit kit The ShadowGate (also called WordsJS) campaign was identified…
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We uncovered a recent activity involving the notorious online credit card skimming attack known as Magecart. The attack, facilitated by a new cybercrime group, impacted 201 online campus stores in the United States and Canada.
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We discovered a phishing campaign targeting South Korean websites and users’ credentials using the watering hole technique. Labeling the campaign Soula, cybercriminals injected a malicious JS code in at least four websites for a fake login pop-up to appear at intervals before they can continue using the pages.
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We identified a new exploit kit we named Novidade that targets home or small office routers by changing their Domain Name System (DNS) settings via cross-site request forgery (CSRF), enabling attacks on a victim’s mobile device or desktop through web applications in which they’re authenticated with. Once the DNS setting is changed to that of a malicious server, the attacker can execute a pharming attack, redirecting the targeted website traffic from all devices connected to the same router.
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