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Almost 1,000 Online Stores Under Attack from GiftGhostBot Botnet

24th March 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu

 

                                                    GiftGhostBot

 

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 bot attack detection, monitoring, and mitigation, says the botnet, nicknamed GiftGhostBot, has started attacks on February 26, this year.

 

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