Global Cybersecurity Threats to the E-Commerce Sector: Regional Analysis and Intelligence

The e-commerce sector has emerged as a primary target for cybercriminals and ransomware syndicates actors throughout 2024 and 2025. This indepth report presents a comprehensive intelligence assessment of the escalating cybersecurity threats impacting global e-commerce platforms, marketplaces and service providers. Our analysis is grounded in opensource intelligence (OSINT) collected from dark web forums, Telegram-based hacker groups, ransomware group leak sites, and initial access marketplaces. The methodology strictly adhered to passive intelligence collection protocols to avoid direct interaction with malicious actors and maintain the objectivity and integrity of this threat assessment.

Between August 2024 and June 2025, a significant escalation in cyber activity was observed targeting digital commerce infrastructure across all global regions. The threat landscape reveals a multi-faceted attack environment: largescale data breaches compromising hundreds of millions of customer records, systematic exploitation of content management systems (CMS) such as Magento and WooCommerce, ransomware campaigns against e-commerce service providers, and widespread availability of administrative access to online stores offered for sale on underground platforms.