
This holiday shopping season can make or break many Australian businesses. While consumers are shopping for bargains, attackers are searching for vulnerabilities.
The surge in shopping traffic during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas sales provides cybercriminals with the perfect cover to launch scams and fraud campaigns, exploiting the rise in digital transactions to hide malicious activity.
The Perfect Storm of Old and New Attacks
Attacks like phishing, account takeovers and payment fraud continue to dominate, but they spike during the holidays due to the sheer volume of legitimate traffic, which enables cybercriminals to blend in.
There is also an uptick in more sophisticated scams ...









