Cyber-criminals are stepping up their cyber-scams and phishing campaigns against shoppers looking for the best deals this holiday shopping season, Zscaler researchers said. Check out some of the common spam and phishing attacks targeting Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Thanksgiving.
Researchers have already observed a "sharp increase" in phishing and spam activities against online shoppers, and the number is expected to increase over the next few weeks, Rubin Azad, a security researcher at Zscaler, wrote on the
Threat Labz blog. "The motive behind these attempts is to steal sensitive user information which includes personal credentials and financial data," Azad said. The data comes directly from Zscaler Security Cloud, with Web traffic activity for over 12 million users at 5,000 global customers.
