Digital credit skimming has undergone a significant transformation since researchers first started tracking the phenomenon in the early twenty aughts. Once, skimming was a space ruled by a handful of highly skilled groups that carefully chose and hit their targets, manipulating the JavaScript on websites to steal customers’ credit card info, often to sell on the black market. Today, it’s a much more inclusive group packed with cybercriminals that take advantage of cheap, widely available, and easy-to-use skimmers.
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