Sally Beauty Protects eCommerce Against Bot and Magecart Attacks

Fraud
Bots
Card Testing
Management/mitigation
PerimeterX
Sep 04, 2020
Case Studies
Increasingly sophisticated botnets can be used to quickly unleash nefarious actions ranging from sending spam emails to launching distributed denial-of-service attacks. This case study outlines how a series of carding bot attacks hit Sallybeauty.com, resulting in thousands of dollars in unnecessary payment processing fees. PerimeterX then details how Sallybeauty.com leveraged PerimeterX's Bot Defender and Code Defender solutions to help protect their website from these automated attacks and dramatically reduce Sally Beauty's fraud costs.

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