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Magento sites hacked via popular helpdesk extension

Friday 29 December 2017 10:38 CET | News

Dutch security researcher Willem de Groot has discovered that Magento sites have been attacked by hackers running a popular helpdesk extension.

The extension is named Mirasvit Helpdesk, allowing sites to show a ‘Chat with us’ widget on Magento shops. De Groot published a copy of the payload on GitHub, and posted some simple instructions on his blog that Magento owners can follow to test and see if their sites have been compromised via the Mirasvit Helpdesk widget.

The company declined to comment for this story, but published a blog post warning customers of ongoing exploitation attempts and reminded them to update their extensions, according to BleepingComputer. Furthermore, the company has released a fix for Mirasvit way back in September 2017, the online publication continues.


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