Cybercriminals plan to make L7 routers serve card stealing code - Help Net Security

Cybercriminals plan to make L7 routers serve card stealing code - Help Net Security

One of the Magecart cybercriminal groups is testing a new method for grabbing users’ credit card info: malicious skimming code that can be loaded into files used by L7 routers.



What is Magecart?


Magecart is an umbrella label for a growing number of cybercriminals groups that perform JavaScript-based credit card skimming attacks, usually by:


A novel approach


Researchers with the IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team have spotted and discovered 17 “test” files fed into VirusTotal, and believe that person is part or working for Magecart Group 5 (MG5), which mostly focuses on targeting third-party services used by e-commerce websites by injecting skimming code to JavaScript libraries they provide.


A thorough analysis of those files lead them to believe that the group is working on code that will a ..

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