Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Motivated by the continual surge in eCommerce, which according to UNCTAD has seen unprecedented growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers are scrambling to adapt to a shift in consumer demand and create unique customer experiences that set them apart from the competition.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2022

This relates to both having to start an ecommerce site if they couldn’t sell physically, or put their work on servers and provide access to employees. . Business email compromise (BEC) is a form of attack where a cybercriminal takes control of the email account of a member of your organization. The dangers of shadow IT.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, holiday shopping can account for up to 30 percent of annual sales for online retailers. This time of year, it’s more important than ever that ecommerce businesses make cybersecurity a top priority in order to protect their website, customers, and bottom line. Holiday Shopping Revenue Reaches New Heights. billion and $730.7

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2023

Website impersonation (also known as “brandjacking”) draws users to fraudulent copies of a brand’s website to trick them into revealing personal and financial account information used to steal their identities and funds. Memcyco is trusted by leaders in financial services, eCommerce and other industries.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2024

many users likely use the same email everywhere, for everything like: bank accounts insurance accounts social media newsletters ecommerce accounts/purchases forum registrations resumes personal communications. You do need an email account (an inbox) to use forwarders/aliases. Think about it. What is email aliasing?

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Is it just us, or is phishing everywhere right now? Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. An emotional phish . A message to you. spyware, ransomware).”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Experts uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering the Quasar RAT. White hat hacker demonstrated how to hack a million Instagram accounts. Magecart hackers compromise another 80 eCommerce sites. FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. For the tool to function, the operator must input a list of compromised email accounts to be scanned.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts. This allows the attacker unauthorized access to numerous accounts or servers, putting the end-user’s information at risk. SMS phishing attacks will be the new phish in town.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One example is the so-called PayLeak caper , a large-scale phishing and redirect campaign targeting those using their smartphones to visit the websites of premium newspapers and magazines. This has translated into an expanding attack surface, with manifold fresh attack vectors, Olson says. Smart attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As Covid pushed the pendulum ever closer to ecommerce supremacy, more people are shopping online in 2022 than ever before, with the usual holiday spike already upon us. There’s no reason to click unfamiliar links that could scam or phish you. In 2021, online holiday sales reached $211.41 billion , a 2.5% Is Online Shopping Safe?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

By inserting a simple piece of code into an ecommerce site, formjackers can steal customers’ personal identifiable information (PII) as they enter it. • Research shows that employee errors are responsible for more than half of business data breaches, but only 3% of people can spot a sophisticated phishing email.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Ensure safe online shopping for your eCommerce customers. As an eCommerce website, you can maximize your sales opportunity by displaying a trust seal. Educate your employees about phishing emails. The truth is, website security is critical to your business, but also very easy to implement. downloads the enclosed attachments.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If your site experiences a URL redirect — which accounts for 17% of all malware infections — you might see a brief decrease in traffic as your visitors land on another site. Perhaps this low cost is why DDoS accounted for 35% of all cyberattacks in 2017 and continues to be a favorite tactic among cybercriminals. SQL injections.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Phishing, ransomware, site defacement and SEO spam are just some of the most common threats SMBs face online. With your paperwork, you can open a business bank account. An ecommerce platform or plugin if you will need the ability to conduct transactions online directly from your site. If you’re in the U.S.,

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The hackers were able to make off with $190 million in crypto by swapping account numbers. It can actually be done using simple email intrusions like phishing and spoofing. In the early days of ecommerce during the mid-1990s, there were many problems with security. According to a report from Chainalysis, there has been about $2.2

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 22, 2019

PayLeak next redirected Android users to a phishing site, using an Amazon gift card giveaway as a lure; iPhone users receive successive popups – first an update alert, followed by falsified instructions to update their Apple Pay account.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Here are just some of the types of cybercrime that could jeopardize the safety of digital media assets: External attacks : Cybercriminals may attempt to breach company networks or systems to steal sensitive assets through phishing emails, brute force, or DDoS attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While investigating suspicious files on a customer’s eCommerce site, the SiteLock Research Team found malicious payment processing code injected into Magento application files that skimmed credit card data and administrative login credentials. Magento is an extensible eCommerce platform, primarily used by small and medium sized businesses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If encrypted data cannot be restored, the production line, stores, eCommerce sites, and all business operations are brought to a standstill, and there may even be a problem with the reliability of the company’s balance sheet, not to mention the possible reputational damages that can lead to loss of customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A breakdown of the data indicated that all the cards could have likely been compromised online either due to phishing, malware or increased activity of Java-Script sniffers,” commented Dmitry Shestakov, Head of Group-IB ?ybercrime ybercrime research unit.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This inclusion can then be used to initiate the following: Deliver malicious payloads that can be used to include attack and phishing pages in a visitors’ browsers. Transfer funds from one account to another. Change user passwords to hijack accounts. Include malicious shell files on publicly available websites.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. The malware is known to be sold on online forums, and distributed via phishing emails. To get more information about a user’s Facebook account, Disbuk queries Facebook Graph API. SmokeLoader.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Protect against phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks by preventing criminals from mimicking trusted websites and tricking users into entering sensitive information. Ecommerce sites may require a higher level of trust and security provided by OV or EV certificates, which requires more rigorous validation. 

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Negative SEO attacks (also called SEO spam attacks) accounted for more than half of all cyberattacks in 2018 and have become increasingly common. Website redirects are one of the most common types of negative SEO attacks and account for 8% of malware files. This number was also up 7.3% from the previous year.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

Onsite requirements: Offsite remote testing will be limited to IT attacks on IT systems and remote social engineering attacks (phone calls, phishing emails, etc.). Many organizations are used to the phishing simulation of employee cybersecurity training tools , but social engineering can go much further.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Really, it's you know, when I started off over 20 years ago, it was things where you did everything by hand, you manually set up accounts within target systems, you manually reset people when they were in a helpdesk, and people didn't use MFA. Moffatt: And other basic things as well like disabling accounts, which are not in use, you know?

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