E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack

About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame injection attack, according to security firm Armorize.

The ongoing mass-injection attacks appear to be carried out from Ukraine against the e-commerce sites. The sites that are successfully attacked are compromised with malware which is then used to try and attack visitors to these e-commerce sites, said Wayne Huang, chief technology officer at Armorize.

While attacks across the Web are not uncommon, Huang says this one is notable because it’s a mass-injection type of attack that’s reminiscent of attacks that were carried out about three years ago in high frequency but are not as common today.

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