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Visa warns of new sophisticated credit card skimmer dubbed Baka

Security Affairs

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The JavaScript URL is hardcoded in the loader script in encrypted format, experts observed that the attackers can change the URL for each victim.

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Visa Security Alert: 12 Steps to Keep Card Skimmers Off Your Website

SecureWorld News

According to Visa, it uses a first of its kind method of obfuscation seen in card skimming: "Baka uses an XOR cipher to encrypt hard-coded values and obfuscate the skimming code delivered by the C2. Institute recurring checks in eCommerce environments for communications with the C2s. And that is part of what makes Baka unique.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Vamosi: Is it interchangeable to say access management and authorization or are they distinct? He loves password managers.