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Ecommerce sites targeted by Magento payment system hack

Credit cards payment being made through phone.

A creative technique involving so-called swap files is being used to deploy persistent credit card skimmers on compromised Magento ecommerce sites, a new report from cybersecurity researchers Sucuri has warned.

"When files are edited directly via SSH the server will create a temporary 'swap' version in case the editor crashes, which prevents the entire contents from being lost," the researchers explained. 

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