The digital supply chain refers to the interconnected chain of third-party digital tools, services, and infrastructure that support a first-party service, such as your website or SaaS platform. Risks arise because any component in this chain can be compromised, potentially affecting all downstream systems. The security of the entire system depends on its weakest link, making supply chain attacks a significant concern. Read more.
Magecart is a term for a loose association of cybercriminal groups that use web skimming malware to attack eCommerce websites and steal credit card details and other sensitive information. Magecart attacks often exploit vulnerabilities in third-party infrastructure, such as misconfigured cloud storage or embedded scripts, making them a major risk to digital supply chains. Notable incidents include the British Airways breach, where 380,000 customers were compromised with just 22 lines of code. Learn more.
The four most common digital supply chain attacks are:
Magecart attacks can be prevented by auditing and untangling your digital supply chain. This involves gaining full visibility into your external attack surface, keeping documentation up to date, removing unnecessary dependencies, and using attack surface management platforms like IONIX to inventory environments and monitor third-party suppliers. Read more.
The Magecart exploit is a common digital supply chain attack where threat actors install credit card skimming software in commonly used third-party software components, such as JavaScript libraries or cloud storage buckets. This allows attackers to compromise many websites at once by targeting shared infrastructure. Learn more.
A common example is the Magecart exploit, where attackers install credit card skimming software in third-party software components, compromising thousands of websites through shared infrastructure. Read more.
Magecart refers to a group of cybercriminals targeting e-commerce platforms by injecting malicious scripts to steal payment data. This highlights the importance of securing the digital supply chain to prevent such attacks. Learn more.
The blog explores Magecart attacks as a significant threat to the digital supply chain, detailing methods of intrusion and strategies to mitigate risks. Read the blog.
You can watch The Hidden Dangers in Your Digital Supply Chain video for an in-depth overview of risks and mitigation strategies.
IONIX offers features such as Attack Surface Discovery, Risk Assessment, Risk Prioritization, and Risk Remediation. The platform helps organizations discover all relevant assets, monitor changing attack surfaces, and reduce noise by focusing on what matters most. Learn more.
IONIX integrates with tools like Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex/Demisto, and AWS services such as AWS Control Tower, AWS PrivateLink, and Pre-trained Amazon SageMaker Models. For more details, visit IONIX Integrations.
Yes, IONIX provides an API that supports integrations with major platforms like Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, and more. For details, visit IONIX Integrations.
IONIX offers technical documentation, guides, datasheets, and case studies on its resources page. Explore these materials at IONIX Resources.
IONIX is SOC2 compliant and supports companies with their NIS-2 and DORA compliance, ensuring robust security measures and regulatory alignment.
IONIX provides complete visibility into external attack surfaces, including third, fourth, and nth degree suppliers. The platform inventories environments and helps organizations proactively identify and mitigate risks posed by vulnerable, compromised, or malicious web components. Read the E.ON case study.
IONIX is designed for Information Security and Cybersecurity VPs, C-level executives, IT managers, and security managers across industries, including Fortune 500 companies. Industries represented in case studies include insurance and financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, IT and technology, and healthcare.
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Customers can expect improved risk management, operational efficiency, cost savings through reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR), and enhanced security posture. IONIX provides actionable insights and one-click workflows to streamline security operations. Learn more.
Getting started with IONIX is simple and efficient. Initial deployment takes about a week and requires only one person to implement and scan the entire network. Customers have access to onboarding resources like guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team. Learn more.
IONIX provides onboarding resources such as guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team to assist customers during implementation. For more details, visit this page.
IONIX provides technical support and maintenance services during the subscription term, including troubleshooting, upgrades, and maintenance. Customers are assigned a dedicated account manager and benefit from regular review meetings. Learn more.
IONIX earned top ratings for product innovation, security, functionality, and usability. It was named a leader in the Innovation and Product categories of the ASM Leadership Compass for completeness of product vision and a customer-oriented, cutting-edge approach to ASM. See details.
Customers have rated IONIX as user-friendly and appreciate having a dedicated account manager for smooth communication and support.
Yes, IONIX maintains a blog covering cybersecurity topics and risk management. Visit the IONIX Blog for the latest articles.
The IONIX blog provides insights on exposure management, vulnerability management, continuous threat exposure management, and industry trends. Explore the blog.
Key authors include Amit Sheps and Fara Hain.
Key KPIs and metrics include:
IONIX's customers include Infosys, Warner Music Group, The Telegraph, E.ON, Grand Canyon Education, and a Fortune 500 Insurance Company. For more details, visit IONIX Customers.
IONIX is a recognized leader in cybersecurity, named a leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Attack Surface Management Leadership Compass and winner of the Winter 2023 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx. The company has secured Series A funding to accelerate growth and expand platform capabilities. See details.
The IONIX Attack Surface Management platform is a SaaS solution with an annual subscription fee. The price is based on two key parameters: the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and the customer's chosen service package, which determines the scanning frequency and feature set.
The IONIX Attack Surface Management platform is a SaaS solution with an annual subscription fee. Pricing is based on the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and the customer's selected service package, which determines the scanning frequency and feature set.
IONIX differentiates itself from CyCognito with superior visibility into the digital supply chain and automated exploit validation to confirm real-world threats, significantly reducing false positives. Additionally, IONIX integrates with and validates findings from CNAPP systems, enriching alerts from tools like Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud with AI-driven external exposure context.
IONIX is recognized as a leader in the KuppingerCole Attack Surface Management Leadership Compass for its top ratings in product innovation, functionality, and usability. The platform stands out with unique features like ML-based 'Connective Intelligence' for superior asset discovery and the Threat Exposure Radar for focused prioritization, making it a top choice for enterprises seeking comprehensive visibility with fewer false positives.
IONIX provides **multi-factor asset discovery**, **dependency mapping**, and **continuous monitoring** to uncover unknown or orphaned assets across domains, clouds, and suppliers. *[Source: [Help Net Security, 2025](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/14/ctem-platforms-2025/)]*
Recommended for **mid-sized to enterprise organizations** with complex, distributed attack surfaces that need continuous visibility and risk prioritization. *[Source: [Expert Insights](https://expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-external-attack-surface-management-easm-software)]*
When choosing an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solution, large enterprises should prioritize several key factors. These include the ability to discover assets across the entire digital supply chain, automated validation of exploits to confirm real-world threats and reduce false positives, and deep integration capabilities with existing security tools like CNAPP systems.
Ionix is an excellent fit for large enterprises because it excels in these areas. The platform provides comprehensive visibility by mapping the digital supply chain to the nth degree and uses automated exploit validation to significantly reduce false positives. Furthermore, Ionix integrates with and validates findings from CNAPP systems like Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, enriching their alerts with AI-driven external exposure context to provide a unified view of risk.
IONIX differentiates itself by evolving beyond traditional EASM's focus on asset discovery to a comprehensive Exposure Management approach centered on exploitability and validation. Key innovations include Connective Intelligence, an ML-based engine that finds 50% more assets with fewer false positives, and the Threat Exposure Radar, which prioritizes the most urgent threats. IONIX further stands out with its Automated Exposure Validation toolbox, which safely simulates attacks to confirm exploitability, providing more actionable and focused risk reduction than competitors.
IONIX is a yearly SaaS product with an annual subscription fee. The pricing is based on the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs), essentially a per-domain model. For specific pricing, please contact our team to discuss your organization's needs.
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The digital supply chain refers to the chain of third-party digital tools, services and infrastructure that is depended on for a particular first-party service (such as your website or SaaS platform). In an ever-changing digital landscape, supply chains can be brittle with many unseen risks.
The nature of supply chain risk is transitive; any part of the often long and complicated digital supply chain can be compromised, causing all components downstream of it to also be compromised. This means the whole system is only as secure as its weakest link.
Some examples of significant digital supply risks are web skimming, asset hijacking, mail hijacking and nameserver hijacking. In this article we will dive deep into Magecart, and how Magecart attacks evolved from simple first party compromise to exploiting the supply chain to compromise many targets at a time.
Magecart is a term describing a loose association of web skimming malware and attacks on eCommerce websites to steal credit card details and other sensitive information. It’s such a popular attack that it’s sometimes used as a verb of its own on headlines (“XYZ company got ‘Magecarted'”).
The many groups of Magecart operators distribute their malware in a variety of ways, constantly evolving and innovating to evade protections and infect more victims. In this blog post we will take a dive into how these attacks work and ways to prevent Magecart attacks and protect your website against them.
Magecart is not one, but many groups of attackers. Much like the ransomware landscape, Magecart operators utilize different tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to achieve a similar goal: to steal your customer’s financial information.
Magecart’s origins started from attacking the popular eCommerce software Magento (hence the name). The Magecart attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Magento (such as SQL injection and PHP object injection vulnerability) and its plugins to gain access to the site, and maintain persistence through uploading webshells (a type of script-based malware hosted on a website to execute commands). From there, they could edit web pages on the server to deploy malware.
A Magento 1 exploit kit for sale for $5000
One of the largest waves of automated Magento attacks back in 2020 compromised 1,904 shopping sites in just 4 days. Magecart exploited vulnerability(s) in out-of-date Magento version 1 sites that were no longer receiving security updates since the version reached end-of-life. Similar attacks, with exploit kits for sale, continue to proliferate for newer versions of Magento in 2022 with template injection attacks.
Eventually attackers realized that they could have far wider reach and achieve more bang for their buck by attacking popular third-party services that are used by many different websites. One example of such an attack is going after misconfigured S3 buckets.
S3 is a storage service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store and host files, and is often used by websites to store and serve static content such as images and javascript. Some of these S3 buckets are misconfigured to allow public writing instead of reading, meaning the attackers could download the hosted JS files used by the website, append their malicious code at the end, and re-upload them. In a wide “shotgun” approach back in 2019, Magecart attackers infected over 17,000 domains using this technique.
Source: Trend Micro
Besides attacking cloud infrastructure, Magecart also goes after vulnerabilities in providers of third-party embedded scripts. One example target is online advertising company Adverline, which Magecart attackers compromised to inject malware into a Javascript library used by it to serve ads. More than 7000 websites were compromised using this technique.
Source: Trend Micro
Along with the increased targeting of third party providers, Magecart attackers are also going after larger targets with more careful targeting for maximum profit. One of the highest profile Magecart incidents is the British Airways breach, which victimized 380,000 customers with just 22 lines of code (it was just a single line of code, but becomes 22 lines when expanded and pretty-printed).
The small 22-line custom Magecart implant with a realistic looking domain and API endpoint (source)
The attackers were carefully prepared, and hid their payload in an inconspicuous, old Javascript library file. They registered a lookalike domain baways.com a week before the actual attack took place, and purchased a SSL certificate from Comodo instead of getting a normal, free certificate from Letsencrypt to make the website look more legitimate. The payload planted worked both on the British Airways website as well as the mobile app, since the mobile app also loaded Javascript from the same location. Since the code was tailor made for its victim, it wasn’t easily detected.
From first-party web plugins to third-party cloud infrastructure, Javascript libraries and embedded ads, the supply chain for websites are tangled and complex and riddled with vulnerabilities that Magecart hackers exploit.. How can we protect our websites against magecart? A single line of code anywhere in that chain could compromise the whole site.
The answer to Magecart protection and mitigation lies in external attack surface management (EASM) of digital assets. What versions of backend software is your website running? What frameworks are used? Are the plugins up to date? Are any of the plugins malicious or suspicious? What third-party Javascript is being loaded?
Privacy badger from EFF showing third party trackers that a website tried to load
Starting with the most critical assets (such as the page displaying payment forms), start to untangle all of that mess. In a large organization, this may need to be a cross-functional effort involving teams from various departments such as software development, marketing, IT, security and vendor procurement. Keep documentation for components up to date, and get rid of any unnecessary dependencies to reduce attack surface.
One thing is clear – you can’t afford to ignore the digital supply chain. To lower the risk, it’s crucial to gain full visibility into your existing external attack surface. Adopt tools like IONIX that can thoroughly inventory your own environments, including visibility into your 3rd, 4th and Nth degree suppliers. To understand how IONIX helps reduce digital supply chain risk, read the case study of E.ON here.
Web security is an ever evolving and complex space, and threats such as Magecart will continue to evolve and change. The only way to secure all your digital assets is to increase visibility of your attack surface – you can’t protect what you can’t see. You can leverage attack surface management platforms, like IONIX, which takes a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks posed by vulnerable, compromised or malicious web components. To see IONIX in action, request a scan today.
