{"id":7713,"date":"2019-02-20T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/cyber-thieves-set-sights-on-hijacking-payment-data\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:37:09","slug":"cyber-thieves-set-sights-on-hijacking-payment-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/cyber-thieves-set-sights-on-hijacking-payment-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-thieves set sights on hijacking payment data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thousands of websites are being hit by cyber-thieves who implant code to scoop up payment card numbers, research suggests.<\/p>\n

Security giant Symantec found more than 4,800 websites were being hit by these “form-jacking” attacks every month.<\/p>\n

High-profile victims of these attacks include airline BA and Ticketmaster. <\/p>\n

Online crime groups had turned to the attacks as other more established techniques proved less and less lucrative, Symantec said.<\/p>\n

‘Attack code’<\/h2>\n

“It’s a sign we’re in a world where security is tighter and tighter and it’s getting harder to carry out this type of activity,” said Orla Cox, director of Symantec’s security response unit.<\/p>\n

Formerly profitable ventures involving ransomware and mining crypto-currencies now made gangs much less money, she said.<\/p>\n

Instead, they were now inserting “attack code”, either when sites failed to update core software to close loopholes or via insecure third-party apps, such as chat apps, analytics packages or other extras.<\/p>\n

“It’s a tiny line of code in there and that’s enough for attackers to monitor payment card info being entered and they siphon it off,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Its often not obvious that the website has been compromised. <\/p>\n

“To the naked eye everything would look fine.”<\/p>\n

Make money<\/h2>\n

Last year, Symantec had stopped more than 3.7 million form-jacking attacks, said Ms Cox, adding that the figure was a measure of the technique’s sudden popularity.<\/p>\n

“Cyber-criminals are continuing to find new ways to make money,” she said. “And when they do, they pile in.”<\/p>\n

Ransomware was also still widely used, said Ms Cox, but better back-up practices by businesses and home users meant it was harder for criminals to secure a payday. And infections from ransomware had fallen by 20% over the past year. <\/p>\n

“In a lot of cases people are not paying up because its got easier for them to get their data back as they often have it in the cloud somewhere,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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