A new credit card-stealing attack is underway on the eBay Magento e-commerce platform, which is used by more than 240,000 businesses worldwide.
The hack has been discovered by US security firm Sucuri, which says it's part of a wave of recent attacks in the wild by the same unnamed hacker group and predicts “we're in for a new trend of Magento-based credit card stealers”
In response, Sucuri is urging merchants to protect their data through PCI compliance. It also warns that while the current attack targets Magento: “Realise that this can affect any platform that is used to support e-commerce. As the industry grows so will the specific attacks targeting the industry.”
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