Security News > 2024 > January > Hackers employ nuanced tactics to evade detection

Threat actors evolved tactics, opting for a more nuanced approach that spread attacks across a broader timeframe to blend in with legitimate traffic and evade detection during peak holiday shopping times, according to Cequence Security.

The data suggests that sophisticated attackers began their "Attack runs" earlier in the year to lay the groundwork for holiday sales to try and avoid the retailers' security lockdowns as much as possible.

In the second half of 2023 alone, gift card fraud increased by 110%, while scraping, loyalty card fraud and payment card fraud increased by a collective average of over 700% as attackers lay the groundwork for holiday sale attacks ahead of retailer security crackdowns.

These types of attacks are correlated and spiked together because those parts of the website, applications, and associated APIs are related, especially as they pertain to attacks.

Most online retailers encounter attacks that employ standard well-known account takeover tactics that peak during the holidays.

With attackers constantly refining their tactics and expanding their arsenal, the need for a vast, historical threat intelligence database and an expert team to decipher the rapidly evolving API threat landscape has become increasingly paramount.

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