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Do not buy before you read: This is how our credit information is stolen
As you prepare for shopping, there are those who plan to celebrate on your credit card: a 178% increase in the number of malicious sites plotting on some of the $ 910 billion of online shopping days.
Check Point has prepared for us some rules that will help avoid cheating.
Do not take out your credit card before you read
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Gil Shweid
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Sunday, 14 November 2021, 16:46 Updated: Monday, 15 November 2021, 06:58
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With all due respect to the Israeli episode called "Shopping IL" that has already passed, and even to the holiday known as "Chinese Bachelors Day", the foundation of the most populous country in the world, the big money is still in Western Europe and North America - and there is no real substitute for Black Friday (26.11) or To Cyber Monday (29.11).
But while consumers around the world are excitedly preparing credit cards for upcoming equal deals, tens of thousands (!) Of malicious sites have already been planted by hackers, no less excited than the desire to steal part of the $ 910 billion, the expected aggregate revenue of all virtual stores participating in 'month's Shopping '.
A study by the Israeli information security company Check Point found that during November, about 5,300 malicious sites a week began to be set up, mimicking the well-known shopping sites. This is a 178% increase in the number of malicious shopping sites set up compared to the average for the whole of 2021 - which even then has already bought a place among the pages of history as a record year for online attacks.
The purpose of the sites is to fool consumers and get them to enter a mirror site built by hackers, so that the latter can infect consumers' computers with damage (viruses) and take over their phone or computer. In addition, the sites are used for information fishing (phishing), mainly of credit card information.
One of the examples in the study concerns a malicious website that mimics the website of designer Michael Kors, in which a carrying case was offered to women at an 80% discount, so that it would be a center of attraction for the brand's amateurs.
Another example was one of the world's known shopping sites - Amazon, has established a credit to purchasers, Amazon Japan, requested via email to re-enter their details as a result of a problem, not really occurred, but was intended to get unsuspecting customers their personal data.
Data Accumulated at Check Point, which is traded on the Nasdaq US $ 16 billion exchange, using the Threat Cloud system, which collects information from hundreds of millions of endpoints where the company's technology is embedded, and analyzes it.
About 3 billion documents and websites Pass, daily, an examination that allows the company to predict data about active or planned attacks.
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Gil Schweid, CEO of Check Point: "This year, the record for the number of malicious sites that are set up every week is broken, and the level of imitation of the source sites is particularly high" (Photo: Reuven Castro)
How do you identify a site that is designed to steal your credit information?
The company has published a number of recommendations for online and safe consumption, among them:
to avoid entering ads of special offers that come from an unknown source - and especially through social networks.
Make sure that the site you are on and purchase is the original site and not a high-level imitation - something that can be checked, among other things, by examining the URL. For example the original Amazon site will be www.amazon.com and not, for example: www.amazon1.com or www.amazon.gov.
In addition, Check Point recommends avoiding financial transactions on unsecured sites, where a secure site can be identified by searching for the letter S after the HTTP at the URL, next to an icon (symbol) of a lock located to the left of the URL.
It is also advisable to beware of emails and messages asking to update a password on a shopping site. If you did not request to reset your password - assume that this is a scam and do not click on the link in the message.
Gil Schweid, CEO of Check Point:
"This year broke the record for the number of malicious sites that are set up every week, and the level of imitation of the source sites is particularly high.
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