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Cyber Monday - Protect Your Website

Turaco Labs
December 1st, 2025
3 min read

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eCommerce
Cybersecurity
Malware
Web Security

It's Cyber Monday, following record-breaking Black Friday sales (according to Forbes magazine) and the Christmas rush is fast approaching - all with the backdrop of SessionReaper targeting Magento /Adobe Commerce sites and a significantly growing number of hacked sites worldwide.

As of this morning, we can see over 50,000 domains with indicators of compromise - with nearly 90% of the detected malware targeting eCommerce payment data.

The main categories of malware detected are digital skimmers (also known as e-Skimmers) and digital loaders (first stage of a multi-stage attack).

With record sales, online retailers are a seriously interesting target for criminals and the significant rise in hacked sites over previous weeks and months shows that the industry is in a battle with advanced criminals.

Digital Skimmers and Loaders

As can be seen from this chart, it appears that digital skimmers are increasing relative to loaders, once again.  An interesting trend to watch.  

Most of these sites do not know that they are hacked and have active digital skimmers stealing their customer data - transaction by transaction.

Why?

The threats are evolving as quickly as we've ever seen - largely in response to the industry getting better at detecting standard skimmers.  The criminals have to keep evolving to evade detection - especially by the likes of Google and other "generalist secure scanners" - to maximise their harvest of payment data.

While we do get the occasional enquiry for help from a merchant who has been flagged by Google as being hacked, it is a rare occurence - in fact most of the hacked sites we assist are referred in to us via their payment processor or the card brands.  And in many cases they remain adamant that they have not been breached until ThreatView shows them the malware lurking within their website.

With the Festive Season in full swing, we'd urge you to monitor your site for threats, keep it secure to keep your customers' data safe and your business safe (from legal, regulatory and financial liabilities).

And if you are not yet monitoring your site with ThreatView Advanced Edition, you can protect your site by signing up here.

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