Protect yourself from web skimming
Many websites that sell products or services rely on third-party payment providers to process payments. When you make a purchase, you’re redirected to that provider’s website to complete the transaction before being redirected back. Sadly, scammers have found ways of intercepting traffic to these sites to pop up their own fake version of the payment site to trick users into giving up their credit card details. This form of a ‘man-in-themiddle’ attack doesn’t target the payment provider, but instead alters the code on the merchant website to redirect your traffic to the phishing site. Malwarebytes Premium’s web protection component offers users realtime protection against known phishing sites based on their behaviour, but you can take further steps to protect yourself: verify the payment provider’s website using the information in the address bar of your browser. Click the padlock to view the site’s security and verify it’s pointing to the site you expect it to (make sure it’s https://provider.com and not something like https://http.ps//provider.com for example). If in doubt, cancel the transaction and alert the online merchant.