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E-skimming: the sneaky online shoplift

Ever wondered how those online shopping scams happen? Well, there’s a sneaky trick called e-skimming that cybercriminals use to steal your credit card information. Imagine you’re shopping online and you reach the checkout page. You enter your credit card details, thinking everything is safe. But what you don’t know is that a tiny piece of […]

What is e-skimming?

Skimming online customer payment info from website checkout forms. Cyber criminals introduce skimming code on e-commerce payment card processing web pages to capture credit card and personally identifiable information (PII) and send the stolen data to a domain under their control. The malicious code captures credit card data as the end user enters it in […]

E-skimming attacks on the rise as peak online shopping season begins

With the holidays right around the corner, online shopping is poised for a record-breaking season in 2019. Emarketer predicts that consumers will spend over $135 billion this upcoming holiday season. The e-commerce boom precipitated a new cybersecurity threat known as e-skimming, which involves the theft of consumer payment information from online stores. If you’re thinking […]