Security News > 2021 > November > As digital shopping surges, researchers predict 8 million daily attacks

"Based on intelligence garnered from the Arkose Labs Network, we predict a 60 percent increase in attacks for the upcoming 2021 holiday shopping season. No digital business is immune to this threat."

It is estimated that eight million attacks will occur daily during the 2021 holiday shopping season that is now underway.

Digital traffic to U.S. travel sites was hit particularly hard, with 66 percent of those online visits marked as fraud or bot attacks.

Asia has returned as the top originator of fraud attacks, with China driving nearly half of all attacks in Q3. In comparison, the United States, in second place, accounted for 19.4 percent of attacks.

In 2020, more than 2 million bot attacks occurred between October and December.

In 2020 digital businesses saw 90% higher volume of credential stuffing attacks during the final quarter of the year, over the holiday shopping period.

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