Fact 1: cybercriminals love to exploit big holidays for personal gain. Case in point: we’re already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. Fact 2: the retail sector, particularly e-commerce, has always been popular with cybercriminals. In Q3 2021, online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). Taken together, both facts mean that Black Friday is a big day not only for shoppers, but for cybercriminals too.
It is important to be aware of the potential threats out there while shopping online. That’s why we constantly monitor the landscape of shopping-related threats and release a report tracking the latest criminal activity targeting online shoppers. Here’s what we found this year.
Methodology
In this research, we analyzed various types of threats: financial malware associated with major online shopping platforms as well as phishing pages and fake websites mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms.
The data came from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a system for processing anonymized cyberthreat-related data shared voluntarily by Kaspersky users. We analyzed the detections related to various online shopping platforms between January and September 2021; and the period from January to October 2021 for financial phishing.
Furthermore, we analyzed financial malware associated with major e-commerce platforms detected during the period from January 2020 to November 2021.
In this report, we analyze data related to the world’s five most visited retail platforms: Walmart, eBay, Amazon, Alibaba and Mercado Libre.
Key findings:
During the first 10 months of 2021, Kaspersky products detected 40 584 415 phishing attacks targeting e-commerce and e-shopping ..
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