Group-IB said it discovered and reported to FILA UK malware known as GMO that was active on the fashion brand’s website for the past four months – and may have sniffed the payment card information of thousands of customers placing online orders through the tainted pages.“Cybercriminals might have injected a malicious code by either exploiting a vulnerability of Magento CMS, used by FILA.co.uk, or simply by compromising the credentials of the website administrator using special spyware or cracking password with brute force methods.
Threat actors were able to compromise 4,800+ websites every month during 2018 according to a Symantec Report, using injected JavaScript code to steal payment information such as debit and credit cards from customers of eCommerce sites. The most high-profile formjacking attacks were against British Airways and Ticketmaster, but according to Symantec cyber criminals who used this technique also got a huge chunk of their illicit earnings from smaller online retailers who accept payments from their customers via online portals.
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