GiftGhostBot Botnet Attacked Nearly 1,000 Online E-Commerce Stores

A botnet specialized in gift card fraud is using the infrastructure of nearly 1,000 websites to check the balance of several types of electronic gift cards in order to defraud legitimate card owners.

Distil Networks, a cybersecurity firm specialized in bots attack detection, monitoring, and mitigation, says the botnet, nicknamed GiftGhostBot, has started attacks on February 26, 2017.


It is a card breaking or token cracking assault. This implies fraudsters are utilizing computerization to test a moving rundown of potential record numbers and asking for the adjust. In the event that the adjust is given, the bot administrator realizes that the record number exists and contains stores.

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