Holiday shopping and holiday phishing

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November is the first month of the busiest shopping season of the year. It all begins on 11.11, otherwise known as Singles’ Day in China, which has since morphed into one of the largest online (and offline) shopping days in the world, Immediately followed by Black Friday, which falls on November 23rd this year. After that, Christmas and New Year head into view. It’s a great time for shoppers, with discounts and promotions at every turn. The downside to all the juicy offers? Many people drop their guard and become the easy prey of cybercriminals.

Phishing statistics

In recent years financial phishing has made up at least a quarter of all annual phishing attacks. In 2017, financial phishing exceeded half of the attacks.

The graph shows a steady rise in the share of financial phishing every year since 2014. Safe to say, we can assume that this upward trend will continue for the rest of 2018.

During the holiday sales period, the number of attacks targeting customers of online shopping and payment systems increases considerably. Our stats indicate that during this period, financial phishing accounts for an additional 10% share of all attacks. Outside the sale season, fraudsters favor banking clients.

On Singles’ Day, we saw a spike in the number of attempts blocked by our security solutions to redirect users from dangerous resources.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/black-fri...018/24729/