Individuals and retailers aren’t the only ones getting ready for the biggest shopping season of the year. The holiday shopping season is also a big event for cybercriminals. Every holiday season, security researchers document spikes in online criminal activity, ranging from phishing scams, fake shopping sites, and credit card skimming software, to malicious and compromised applications being posted in online app stores. At the same time, because people will be getting out their credit cards to make sometimes large numbers of purchases, attackers assume that a few fraudulent transactions may be easily missed.
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