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Payment Security Vulnerabilities: Change is Everywhere

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

We have also changed the way that we pay for goods and services and we are now offered alternatives beyond using our credit cards, such as wallets and instant payments in many of our transactions. The credit card system as we know it, and its underlying security, has evolved over six decades, making it an arguably safe payment method.

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Hardware security still essential at the heart of the payments infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In my recent blog on the evolving PCI SSC initiatives in 2018, “ Minor on PCI DSS, major on almost everything else ,” I outlined how the organisation is covering new areas to reflect the migration from physical card payments to online digital payments. Digital payments fuelling a mixture of hardware and software security.

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Magecart group 7 use new e-skimmer to steal payment data

Security Affairs

Researchers from security firm RiskIQ have uncovered a new ongoing Magecart campaign that already compromised at least 19 different e-commerce websites to steal customers’ payment card data. The experts discovered a new software skimmer, dubbed “MakeFrame,” that injects HTML iframes into web-pages to capture payment data.

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Gootkit: Unveiling the Hidden Link with AZORult

Security Affairs

We can hypothesize that the malware writers may have emulated the Brushaloader stager functionalities, creating a sort of custom version exploiting the same mechanism. Figure 3: Encrypted communication with driverconnectsearch[.]info Figure 2: Classic Brushaloader sample (left) along with the recent Javascript stager (right).