Holiday Shoppers Beware: 100K Malicious Sites Found Posing as Well-Known Retailers

guest · Nov 16, 2019

Holiday Shoppers Beware: 100K Malicious Sites Found Posing as Well-Known Retailers
The copycat sites are using valid certificates to be more convincing
November 15, 2019
https://threatpost.com/holiday-shoppers-malicious-sites-posing-retailers/150326/

As the holiday season looms, cybercrooks are going after shoppers with more than 100,000 lookalike domains mimicking legitimate retailers.

The news comes as a new report shows that in tandem, the retail industry is experiencing more breaches than any other industry in 2019 as criminals consistently go after shopper information.
This increase in consumer spending will be accompanied by increases in cyberattacks as bad actors also prepare to profit from the holiday season, researchers say.

To that point, Venafi researchers uncovered the copycat phishing sites, which use trusted, valid TLS certificates (60 percent of them are free certificates from Let’s Encrypt).
This year’s explosion of copycat sites more than doubles the number seen last year, Venafi said;

“We continue to see rampant growth in the number of malicious, look-alike domains used in predatory phishing attacks,” said Jing Xie, senior threat intelligence researcher at Venafi, in a press statement.
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Venafi: Holiday Shoppers Beware: Look-Alike Domains Are Targeting Your Wallet

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