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To enjoy the best that Black Friday has to offer this year, be sure to follow a few safety recommendations: To learn more about Black Friday tricks and scams, visit. ‘So, in order to protect your data and finances it will be a safe practice to make sure the online payment page is secure: you’ll know it is if the web page’s URL begins with HTTPS instead of the usual HTTP and an icon of a lock will also typically appear beside the URL’, adds Tatyana. Of course, every new payment application is seen by scammers as a new opportunity to potentially exploit users,” says Tatyana Shcherbakova, a security expert at Kaspersky. This time, we discovered a huge increase by 208% in a number of attacks mimicking the most popular payment systems. Perhaps a bit more unexpected is the attention being paid to e-payment systems.
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We always witness intensified scamming activity amid the Black Friday season. For the majority of 2021, the second most popular was eBay, followed by Alibaba and Mercado Libre. The results showed that Amazon was consistently the most popular lure used, when looking at the total number of phishing attempts using its name. Kaspersky researchers have also analyzed which popular platforms were used as bait to spread phishing pages. An active spread of spam emails with 221 745 emails containing the words ‘Black Friday’ was spotted during the month amid the sales season, from October 27 to November 19. There also has been a rise in the number of spam letters detected by Kaspersky’s products. As consumer adoption has skyrocketed, fraudsters started to actively exploit such systems as a lure to spread malicious activity. Indeed, this year we have seen introduction of new payment systems in various countries due to their unmatched convenience. In 2021, the total number of financial phishing attempts targeting e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627,560) to October (1,935,905) - a 208% increase.