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Visa: Keeping Online Merchants Safe From The Pipka Skimmer

November 20, 2019
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Visa: Keeping Online Merchants Safe From The Pipka Skimmer

November 20, 2019
A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers' data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration of JavaScript skimming, Pipka, disappears from the merchant site after the data is stolen — meaning that it's tough to follow a fraudster's trail. David Capezza, senior director of payments systems intelligence at Visa, tells PYMNTS what is next in skimming  — and how merchants can gird against the bad guys.