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Visa warns of new sophisticated credit card skimmer dubbed Baka

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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

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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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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

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An SSL Certificate is used to establish a secure encrypted connection between a web browser and a web server. Joe can use a web application firewall (WAF ) to help protect his blog from bad bots and other malicious traffic. Just like with Joe’s blog, Howard’s website can benefit from a web application firewall.

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The OWASP Top 10: Sensitive Data Exposure

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This may depend on the type of website you own – if you run an eCommerce site, you’ll need to secure credit card numbers, while forums and customer portals should protect their users’ login credentials. Always encrypt the data using strong algorithms, and ensure your website application uses hashing for stored passwords.

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How to Start a Secure Online Business from Home

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An ecommerce platform or plugin if you will need the ability to conduct transactions online directly from your site. An SSL certificate to encrypt customer-entered data. A web application firewall (WAF) to keep hackers out. WordPress is the most popular CMS and is used by 30 percent of websites on the internet.

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Your Small Business Cybersecurity Guide to the Most Common Cyberthreats

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If your machine is vulnerable and you click on a malicious email link or visit an infected website, ransomware can begin to encrypt critical documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other files on your local machine. Once these critical files are encrypted, you’ll get an alert notifying you that decryption will occur once you pay a ransom.

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The 2019 Database Gold Rush

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Website owners should also look into an automated solution to automatically patch security vulnerabilities within website code, plugin, CMS, and Ecommerce applications. While this doesn’t protect the server itself, it does ensure sensitive data is encrypted and can’t be read by an attacker in the event it’s intercepted.

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