Magecart is a relatively new online exploit group that has been in the news recently for affecting British Airways, and Ticketmaster in the recent past months. This hithero-unrecognized group uses a web-based card skimmer script by injecting a precious few lines of malicious code in a website, to then steal sensitive data that customers enter in the payment sections of said affected websites. Two large digital threat management outfits, RiskIQ and Volexity, today released their reports on how Newegg was similarly affected during the time period of August 13, 2018 through September 18, 2018, and what this means to users who may have performed a transaction on the website during this period.

In particular, Newegg.com was affected when the criminals behind Magecart registed the neweggstats.com domain (now inactive) via domain provider Namecheap. As RiskIQ points out, this was soon changed to navigate to the 217.23.4.11 IP address, which is a Magecart server that was used to receive and store all collected user data from the compromise that happened since. A fake certificate was issued to add a layer of legitimacy to the domain, as seen below. Be sure to read past the break to find out more details, and also what the bottom line is for affected users.