Dead simple: Plenty of Magecart miscreants still looking to skim off your credit card deets

Dead simple: Plenty of Magecart miscreants still looking to skim off your credit card deets

Average breach not even noticed for 3 weeks ... that's a lot of $$$


Infamous card-skimming malware Magecart is still out there – and the latest campaign has affected at least 17,000 domains so far, according to threat intel biz RiskIQ.


Head researcher Yonathan Klijnsma told The Register there are still around 15 active Magecart-employing cybercrime groups that RiskIQ is aware of.


With the average Magecart breach lasting 22 days, RiskIQ said, the threat posed by the malware is still strong.


American PC parts reseller Newegg was compromised by Magecart in September last year thanks to just 15 lines of Javascript inserted into payment card processing pages.


It's never good when 'Magecart' and 'bulletproof' appear in the same sentence, but here we are


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