Blog Security Research November’s Shopping Holidays: Online Shopping, Sales, and Magecart Attacks 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. Executive summary \r\n \r\n Akamai researchers identified a significant increase in attempts to infect websites with Magecart attacks during Black Friday 2023 and the week leading up to it. \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n During Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2023, Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance observed more than 150 million daily user sessions (a 30% increase over regular days) and detected heightened suspicious activity among customers.…