Lately, online shops across various countries are losing their SQL databases to hackers. The attackers are penetrating insecure servers that are reachable over the public websites, copying the databases, and demanding bitcoins in exchange for stolen data.
What’s brewing?
The ongoing rise in SQL database encryption, extortion, stealing is targeting e-commerce platforms.
According to the reports, most of the online stores are from Germany followed by Brazil, the U.S., Italy, India, Spain, and Belarus. All these countries run e-commerce platforms such as Shopware, OpenCart, Magento v1 and v2, PrestaShop, and JTL-Shop.
Threat actors are demanding the ransom to be paid in the form of bitcoin within ten days, or else they sell the data on public websites.
Perhaps the attackers are selling the stolen databases on the dark web, doubling their profits.
E-Commerce sites entice crooks
Recently, threat actors acting under the Magecart umbrella group were seen exploiting an old vulnerability in a Magento plugin to deploy credit card-skimming malware on e-commerce sites.
A few weeks back, the ShinyHunters hacking group breached Bhinneka, an Indonesian e-commerce company. The hackers stole 1.2 million user records and sold them on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin.
Hackers’ undying lust for bitcoin
Hackers gained access to Johannesburg city council’s computer systems and demanded ransom payment in the form of four bitcoins in October 2019.
In June 2019, a ransomware, dubbed Triple Threat, at ..
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