The British Airways breach was the result of a highly targeted digital skimming attack by the same cybercrime group that compromised Ticketmaster and hundreds of other global e-commerce firms over the past year, according to experts. RiskIQ has been following the notorious Magecart group since 2015 and recently alerted the industry about an evolution in its tactics, to focus on introducing malicious “skimming” code designed to exfiltrate users’ card details as they are typed into a site.

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