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Magecart campaign abuses legitimate sites to host web skimmers and act as C2

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Akamai researchers discovered a new ongoing Magecart web skimmer campaign aimed at stealing personally identifiable information (PII) and credit card information from users in North America, Latin America, and Europe. The stolen data is then appended to the request as query parameters, encoded as a Base64 string.

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Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America

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Security experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare steganography technique, attackers are hiding PHP scripts in Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) headers of JPEG images that are uploaded on the website. He explained that attackers leverage PHP function to parse EXIF data of images. S igler added. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

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Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? In February 2021.