Cyber attacks during the holidays: Tips and Trends
Introduction Threat actors are always ready to exploit major events and holidays, launching various cyber attacks to target online users. Between November 19th and November 24th of 2023 (essentially, Black Friday, Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday), Zscaler ThreatLabz observed a spike in phishing, malware, and scam campaigns. In this blog, we ... Read More
Surge of Fake FIFA World Cup Streaming Sites Targets Virtual Fans
Zscaler ThreatLabz is always on the lookout for threat actors trying to take advantage of major world news and events. The FIFA World Cup 2022 has brought with it a spike in cyber attacks targeting football fans through fake streaming sites and lottery scams, leveraging the rush and excitement around ... Read More
Black Friday Shoppers Once Again Scrooged By Cyber Attacks
The holidays are here, and along with the eggnog and tacky sweaters comes the annual spike in phishing, scam, and card skimmer attacks targeting seasonal shoppers – particularly during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping frenzies. This past weekend, ThreatLabz observed lots of malicious activity: some attackers luring victims ... Read More
FakeClicky Activity: Skimmers Hit Again
Zscaler ThreatLabz team monitors different skimmer groups and recently we have seen a spike in the use of the FakeClicky skimmer loader to steal payment details from e-commerce websites. This skimmer has been active for at least the past 2 years. Skimmer groups continue to enhance their techniques to evade ... Read More
Magecart Attacks in 2021
Skimmer groups are growing rapidly and targeting various e-commerce platforms using a variety of ways to remain undetected. The Zscaler ThreatLabZ research team has been tracking these skimmer groups and monitoring the techniques they're using. The latest techniques include compromising vulnerable versions of e-commerce platforms, hosting skimmer scripts on CDNs ... Read More
Cyber Monday: Shopping Scams and Skimmers
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest shopping days of the year, are just behind us, Zscaler has noticed that the attackers have taken advantage of this holiday activity for their targeted cybercrimes. This year has been unprecedented especially with everyone staying home because of Covid-19 and involving in ... Read More
