The cybersecurity landscape advances daily and so do threats, e-commerce websites have become a main target for threat actors. In a recent incident, an advanced skimming attack on WooCommerce sites has shed light on the new methods hackers use to steal crucial data.
The blog discusses the details of this attack, its impact, and the steps businesses can take to protect their e-commerce websites.
Understanding the Attack
The attack, as explained by Sucuri, uses image extensions and style tags to deploy malicious code into WooCommerce websites. The technique is subtle due to its evasive nature, making it a challenge to detect it through traditional security measures:
1. Vector as Style Tags: Hackers used malicious Javascript within style tags. Style tags are generally used to explain the presentation of HTML elements, and their presence is sometimes overlooked by security scans that focus on script tags. By hiding the skimmer code in style tags, hackers successfully bypassed many security checks.
2. Image Extension Scam: The second layer of the attacks uses an image file extension to mimic
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