Just Before Black Friday: A 208% increase in scams
Hackers are also taking advantage of customers' shopping and hunger month for promotions and discounts: a new study has identified sophisticated attacks leading to fake payment pages that seem safe and legitimate.
The most popular platform among attackers: Amazon
Yinon Ben Shoshan
24/11/2021
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 12:10 Updated: 12:15
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208% increase in scams (Photo: ShutterStock)
Black Friday will only be officially celebrated this coming Friday, but many businesses around the world are already in the midst of celebratory celebrations. However, they are not alone: hackers also cracked down on digital attacks and scams last month to take advantage of customers' easy fingers - and steal money from them.
A survey by the Kaspersky cyber defense company already last October identified a significant increase in the number of scams, and a total of almost two million different attacks (1,935,905) were identified compared to September during which only 627,560 attacks were detected - an increase of about 208% in one month.
The main scams are phishing scams - the attack channel that has become the most common following the Corona plague and the closure period, which have forced many of us to move our shopping habits from the mall to the online sites or apps.
The most common type of phishing scam in recent months is counterfeiting of digital payment pages (ePayment).
These pages impersonate legitimate payment pages of businesses all over the world by using the fonts, symbols and designs associated with the businesses.
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The most popular platform among attackers: Amazon (Photo: ShutterStock)
In fact, they are convincing customers that the payment page they entered is legitimate and secure.
In addition, these fake pages are distributed all over the world by text messages, fake emails and even by the cyber criminals themselves impersonating sales people.
Cybercriminals do everything in their power to make the various payment methods accessible to the user (option to pay by direct means of payment such as digital wallets, quick response to the customer, etc.), thus succeeding in convincing more and more users to make transactions through fake payment pages.
Researchers at Kaspersky have also analyzed the trading platforms themselves and the data are not encouraging.
According to the findings, the most popular trading platform for counterfeiting and phishing is Amazon (which has become very popular in Israel in recent years as well), followed immediately by other well-known and large platforms, including eBay, Alibaba, Walmart and more.
Frustrated woman in front of computer (Photo: ShutterStock)
"We always detect a significant increase in the amount of scams during Black Friday, but we did not expect to see such a significant increase in scams using counterfeiting and impersonation of the world's best-known trading platforms and payment sites, with a 208% increase in one month. We encourage users to carefully review links And the trade pages they go into, "said Tatiana Sharbakova, a Kaspersky cyber security expert.
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