(ANSA) – MILAN, 23 NOV – The sales season is one of the favorite times of the year for buyers and retailers, but also for cybercriminals. There are nearly 2 million online scam attempts that Kaspersky researchers have detected globally in the last period, which precedes the arrival of Black Friday. A growth of 208% compared to a month ago. From October 27 to November 19, in the days leading up to the discount week, the cybersecurity company recorded 221,745 spam emails containing the words “Black Friday”. The experts also analyzed the most popular shopping platforms to identify which ones have been used as bait to spread phishing companions.
The latter try to deceive users by pushing them, via email, to open an infected document or to click on fraudulent sites, where they can enter personal information and financial card data, often reproducing fake electronic payment pages. “Looking at the total number of phishing scams that exploit online store names, it was observed that Amazon is the most used bait. For most of 2021, the second most exploited was eBay, followed by Alibaba and Mercado Libre.” explain from Kaspersky. An activity that intensifies more close to the days dedicated to offers. As Tatyana Shcherbakova, Kespersky’s security expert points out, during the Black Friday season, we always see an intensification of the activity of criminals. “Every payment application is seen by scammers as a new opportunity to exploit users.
So to protect your data and money, it is important that you always make sure that the page is secure.
Look for example at the URL of the site, to understand if it starts with HTTPS, instead of the usual HTTP, and if there is a padlock icon next to the address “. (ANSA).
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