Tag: skimmers


  • Easily the most sophisticated skimming devices made for hacking terminals at retail self-checkout lanes are a new breed of PIN pad overlay combined with a flexible, paper-thin device that fits inside the terminal’s chip reader slot. What enables these skimmers to be so slim? They draw their power from the low-voltage current that gets triggered […]

  • Update (06-08-2019): The compromises of Amazon S3 buckets continue and some large sites are being affected. Our crawler spotted a malicious injection that loads a skimmer for the Washington Wizards page on the official NBA.com website. The skimmer was inserted in this JavaScript library: hxxps://s3[.]amazonaws[.]com/wsaimages/js/wizards[.]js Interestingly, this same library had already been altered (loading content […]