Protecting E-commerce Sites from the Growing Threat of Carding Attacks

2020 E-commerce sales for the five-day period, Thanksgiving through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, now dubbed Cyber 5, topped $34 billion. Shopping trends defied predictions this year as COVID drove buying patterns from in-store to online. Increases in consumer spending were accompanied by increases in cyberattacks as bad actors also looked to profit from the holiday season.

Read this whitepaper to learn about findings from the PerimeterX research team about two important carding bots that they uncovered. You will also learn:

• About challenges e-commerce sites are facing from growing attacks from sophisticated carding bots
• How bots exploit card payment vendor APIs and bypass e-commerce web and app infrastructure
• How to assess your risk from carding attacks and the steps that site operators can take to protect their operations.