Kaspersky lab recorded growth of phishing in the segment of online producersa Dragoons
From April to July the increase amounted to hundreds of percent.
In April, the experts identified 58 pages, imitate the “Avito”, and in July there were already 201. The total number of detected counterfeits of this site for seven months has reached 500.
Express company SDEK in April simulated 36 fake web sites, and in July there were already 215.
Scammers create phishing sites that mimic popular e-marketplace and attract buyers low prices. So they possess credit cards or get
money users.
Not to fall for the tricks of phishers, you must make sure that the site name is spelled correctly. Should be alerted writing a website awito.ru or avito-ru.ru.
Ideally, to protect against fraud need to have a separate card for online payments and to transfer money to it just before paying.
Previously, Group-IB, specializing in the prevention of cyber attacks, has detected hundreds of fraudulent websites selling airline tickets.
Employee Group-IB, Jacob Kravtsov, said that the last two months there has been a boom of creating phishing and fraudulent resources associated with the ticket. At the end of July there were three of them
a dozen, in mid-August — about a hundred. Most of them are already blocked, he added.
According to Kravtsov, the majority of these resources specializiruetsya the alleged sale of tickets, in addition there are phishing sites on the reservation of rooms in hotels, car rental and others.
Some of the fake ticket sites have been created to quarantine, but because of the pandemic they have been activated. A substantial part of these resources is fraudulent phishing
the attackers kidnapped the money for the tickets or credit card data.
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