Security News > 2021 > November > How cybercriminals adjusted their scams for Black Friday 2021
Black Friday is approaching, and cybercriminals are honing their malware droppers, phishing lures, and fake sites while shoppers prepare to open their wallets.
The security firm shared a detailed report highlighting the most common threats expected to surface during this year's Black Friday, as well as the Christmas shopping season.
In terms of trends, phishing actors doubled their effort to steal account credentials for e-payment systems, with October 2021 seeing a rise of 208% compared to the month before.
Kaspersky has found that cybercriminals used 11 distinct malware families against shoppers in 2021, with more than half of them being variants of Zeus banking trojan.
The second case involves sites that have cloned real shops by copying their CSS and all content or just fake markets that receive payments without sending anything to the buyer.
If you stumble upon an offer that seems too good to be true, it's probably a scam even in the context of Black Friday.