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Black Friday, phishing on the rise 80% on impossible offers

2020-11-28T20:32:11.336Z


The excessive or too good to be true offers that pop up in the week of Black Friday often hide a cyber threat. (HANDLE)


The excessive or too good to be true offers that pop up in the week of Black Friday often hide a cyber threat.

In the first week of November alone, there was an 80% increase in phishing email campaigns related to "special offers", compared to the weekly average in October.

This was claimed by Check Point Software, a company specializing in IT security.

Tinder phrases can include terms such as 'special', 'offer', 'sale', 'cheap' and '% off'.

Phishing campaigns aim to steal sensitive data, such as credit card data.

 In just two days, November 9 and 10, the number of weekly phishing campaigns was already higher than in the first week of October - explains the company -.

Each phishing campaign reaches hundreds of recipients.

To date, researchers estimate that 1 in every 826 emails are delivered to users around the world by senders outside their network.

By comparison, the ratio in early October was less than 1 in 11,000 emails.

According to another research, by Kaspersky, 82% of Italian users are willing to share their personal information with online retailers when big discounts are involved.

Only 27% of Italians are aware of the fact that scams are more widespread during the Christmas period or during the days dedicated to online sales.

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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