As the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear, the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating an ongoing trend: shoppers are opting to buy online.

Rather than flooding brick-and-mortar stores — and point-of-sale (POS) machines — with sales, studies suggest a high percentage of shoppers in 2020 will be using online options and e-commerce checkout pages. And, those checkout pages are exactly what cyber criminals are targeting — injecting malicious code into them that will send payment card data directly back to the attackers in a technique some refer to as e-skimming.