{"id":6387,"date":"2019-10-26T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2019-10-26T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:47:05","slug":"small-and-medium-sized-businesses-at-risk-of-e-skimming-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/26\/small-and-medium-sized-businesses-at-risk-of-e-skimming-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Small and Medium-sized businesses at risk of E-Skimming attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyware.com\/news\/fbi-issues-warning-to-smbs-about-e-skimming-attacks-a251120c\">https:\/\/cyware.com\/news\/fbi-issues-warning-to-smbs-about-e-skimming-attacks-a251120c\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI is warning SMBs and government agencies about the risk of e-skimming attacks for businesses that take credit card payments online.<\/p>\n<p>E-Skimming, also known as Magecart attacks, occurs when malicious code is injected into a website\u2019s POS system disguised as payment card skimmer scripts. Once the POS is compromised, hackers can then steal customers\u2019 payment card information.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers gain access to the POS server through a phishing attack, third party vendor vulnerability. Once they have access they act as a silent man in the middle and steal user credit card information to sell for profit.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI recommends standard mitigation measures to protect your business from E-Skimming.<\/p>\n<p>Patch Patch Patch your systems.<\/p>\n<p>User education to avoid falling victim to phishing attacks<\/p>\n<p>Remove any default login credentials<\/p>\n<p>Segment networks to avoid easy hops for hackers<\/p>\n<p>Here is an article which breaks down Magecart attack and its evolution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3400381\/what-is-magecart-how-this-hacker-group-steals-payment-card-data.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3400381\/what-is-magecart-how-this-hacker-group-steals-payment-card-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/cyware.com\/news\/fbi-issues-warning-to-smbs-about-e-skimming-attacks-a251120c\u00a0 The FBI is warning SMBs and government agencies about the risk of e-skimming attacks for businesses that take credit card payments online. E-Skimming, also known as Magecart attacks, occurs when malicious code is injected into a website\u2019s POS system disguised as payment card skimmer scripts. Once the POS is compromised, hackers can then steal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-09-malware","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}