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953 Online Stores Infected by Scanner‑Evading Loader Targeting Magento

Rotating Cloudflare‑fronted loader domains use browser fingerprinting to serve scripts only to real shoppers, leaving many infections hidden and difficult to clean.

Overview

  • Sansec says the campaign has run since July 2025 and has injected a small JavaScript loader into the CMS blocks of 953 stores, most running Magento, to fetch further malicious code for real visitors.
  • The operator rotated five loader domains over 15 months and registered deepveindrilling.com on October 6, 2026, which Sansec found loaded from store CMS blocks on 83 sites after October 7.
  • In March 2026 the attackers mass‑injected loaders into 471 stores by uploading webshells through the PolyShell flaw (CVE‑2026‑48356) and another 102 stores show uploads tied to PolyShell or SessionReaper (CVE‑2025‑54236).
  • The loader lives in Magento’s cms_block table and uses in‑browser fingerprinting and localStorage to filter out scanners, persist payloads across visits, and avoid detection even on patched installations that have rogue admin accounts or backdoors.
  • Sansec advises owners to audit cms_block and cms_page entries, hunt for webshells and unknown admin users, rotate database and admin credentials after cleanup, and apply Adobe/Magento patches APSB26‑73 and APSB25‑88 to block the known initial access paths.