Blog Security Magecart: How Akamai Protected a Global Retailer Against a Live Attack Gal Meiri is a senior security researcher with vast research experience in the fields of client-side threats and browser capabilities. Gal leads the Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance Threat Research team. As a researcher, Gal investigates various client-side threats among web skimmers and Magecart attacks. In the past, Gal specialized in client-side user and device fingerprinting and bot detection. With Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance, businesses can stop the attack in real time. Editorial and additional commentary by Emily Lyons \r\n Magecart, a client-side threat in which an attacker injects malicious code into ecommerce websites to steal payment data, remains a serious threat to online businesses. These attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, and they are often part of large-scale campaigns that simultaneously compromise multiple sites.…