Magento is one of the market leaders in the eCommerce, Open-Source platform in today’s times Written in PHP. It is capable of all the essential features needed for a leading eCommerce Store, It's easy to design and develop too. Since it's a popular CMS Security is one of the factors that are to be considered in the long run. Although, Magento…
It takes years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it. ― Stephane Nappo Is your Prestashop, Magneto or OpenCart store secured? Many big e-commerce giants felt similar until their own data and customer personal information like the debit/credit card details, passwords etc. are breached. Generally, we get to know about these issues when our system…
What is Crypto Mining Malware (CoinHive Javascript)? How are you affected? CoinHive is an online service which provides cryptocurrency miners (crypto mining malware) that can be installed on websites using JavaScript. The JavaScript miner runs in the browser of the website visitors and mines coins on the Monero blockchain. It is promoted as an alternative to placing advertising on the website.…
Magento is considered as the best e-commerce platform available today and it has numerous features, plugins, regular updates and a huge community of developers. As the technology and security measures improve, so do the capabilities of the hackers. Hackers usually target e-commerce websites to gain credit card information or just for some kicks. The first step towards security starts with…
Website owners are often bombarded with so much informaiton on web security. Here's top web security experts giving their one most important suggestion for your website's security.
Malware attacks are bad! They bring your business to a stand still and cause a loss money, reputation and even customers. Usually business owners only start caring about malware after they get infected with it. As they say everyone feels secure until they get hacked, and they haven't got hacked until now because a hacker didn't try. Once infected, it…
Magento 2, one of the largest open-source e-commerce platforms in the world, has often been an eye candy for people with malicious intent. No matter the amount of work gone into securing this platform, hackers tend to come up with new ways to circumvent security measures. As its reputation grows, so does the notoriety surrounding the diverse forms of malpractices…
Magento & OpenCart Credit Card Hijack Credit Card malware or Credit Card Hijack is when malicious PHP/JavaScript code is injected into Magento and OpenCart shops which allow hackers to intercept credit card data. This new way of credit card fraud has been undetected for 6 months. There are many cases in which hackers have targeted Magento Payment Security. What is Credit…
An OpenCart & Magento malware redirecting both desktop and mobile websites to malicious links has been doing rounds. Since last week we have encountered several cases of this malware. There are no specific versions which are being targeted as we have seen this infection in a wide range of versions in both Magento & OpenCart. Also, check our in-detailed blog…
With the rise in Magento related security incidents, it is important to restrict access to the Magento admin area. One foolproof way to secure the Magento backend from password guessing attacks is to only allow access to trusted IP addresses. This drastically minimizes the security risk and only takes a couple of minutes to configure. In this guide, we will…
