Over 100 Online Stores Targeted with New Magecart Malware

Over 1oo online stores have been compromised with a new type of web malware called Magecart that secretly logs data entered on checkout pages and sends it to the attacker's server.

First signs of this malware appeared in March 2016, but activity started to pick up in May when the first infections started to take root at high-profile online stores.

By the end of June 2016, Sucuri had stumbled upon a variant of Magecart, of which Softpedia reported as targeting Magento stores that used the Braintree Magento extension to support payments via the Braintree platform.

Magecart can target multiple e-commerce CMS platforms

In reality, this was only one facet of the Magecart attack, which companies such as ClearSky and