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Eggfree Cake Box has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their website to stole credit card numbers. Cake Box is a UK chain of stores selling fresh cream celebration cakes made without eggs.
India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug. 26, 2011 and Feb. 3, 2021, including details such as names, dates of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information, Star Alliance, and Air India frequent flyer data as well as credit card data.
The attacks used fake order receipts and phone numbers in an attempt to steal credit card details from unsuspecting victims, says Armorblox. A standard phishing campaign uses email to try to trick people into divulging confidential information.
Graduating students from several universities in the U.S. have been reporting fraudulent transactions after using payment cards at popular cap and gown maker Herff Jones. Herff Jones was completely unaware of the breach until students started to complain on social media about their fraudulent charges to their payment cards.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology disclosed a payment card incident that impacted customers who entered payment info on its e-commerce website. The Chicago-based association for medical professionals is the world's largest such organization for pathologists and laboratory professionals.
The hacking spree targeting underground marketplaces has claimed another victim as a database from card shop Swarmshop emerged on another forum. By the looks of it, the leak contains the records of the entire Swarmshop community along with all the stolen card data traded on the forum.
Global payments processor VISA warns that threat actors are increasingly deploying web shells on compromised servers to exfiltrate credit card information stolen from online store customers. Throughout the last year, VISA has seen a growing trend of web shells being used to inject JavaScript-based scripts known as credit card skimmers into hacked online stores in web skimming attacks.
Magecart attackers have found a new way to hide their nefarious online activity by saving data they've skimmed from credit cards online in a.JPG file on a website they've injected with malicious code. "The creative use of the fake.JPG allows an attacker to conceal and store harvested credit card details for future use without gaining too much attention from the website owner," he wrote.
Hackers have come up with a sneaky method to steal payment card data from compromised online stores that reduces the suspicious traffic footprint and helps them evade detection. Instead of sending the card info to a server they control, hackers hide it in a JPG image and store it on the infected website.
Attackers are abusing Google's Apps Script business application development platform to steal credit card information submitted by customers of e-commerce websites while shopping online. They take advantage of the fact that online stores would consider Google's Apps Script domain as trusted and potentially whitelisting all Google subdomains in their sites' CSP configuration.