When Adobe released security updates for Magento last week, it warned that the Magento 1.x branch is reaching end-of-life (EOL) and support (EOS) on June 30, 2020, and that those were the final security patches available for Magento Commerce 1.14 and Magento Open Source 1.
Unfortunately, there are still too many (over 100,000) active Magento 1.x installations. The company is urging their owners and admins to migrate to Magento 2.x or risk being hit once another critical and easily exploited vulnerability is unearthed and its existence made public.
About Magento
Magento is a very popular open-source e-commerce platform that powers many online shops, a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by cyber criminals.
Nearly four years ago (and possibly even earlier), cyber crooks started concentrating on breaching Magento-based shops and injecting them with scripts that quietly grabbed users’ personal and payment card data information and sent it to a server they controlled.
Since then, the tactic has been used and continues to be used by many cyber criminal groups, which have been classified by security companies as “Magecart” attackers. As they are quick to exploit newfound vulnerabilities in the Magento core and third-party extensions, hardly a day passes without news about another online shop having been compromised.
If you decide to stick with Magento 1
“If you have a store that continues to run on Magento 1 after June 30, please be aware that from that date forward you have i ..
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