Talos’ tips for staying safe while shopping online this holiday season
Summary: Cisco Talos published holiday shopping safety guidance, noting that threat actors have used lures ranging from PlayStation 5 sales to COVID-19 cures and nuclear weapons news over the past year. Talos cited Adobe's "Holiday Shopping Forecast" projecting e-commerce spending will top $200 billion this holiday season for the first time, and warned that pandemic-related supply chain shortages could push shoppers into long virtual queues or earlier purchases and inspire new scams around in-demand consoles and electronics.
What you should know: Talos points defenders to top-level domains like .top, .stream, .trade and .bid as traditionally responsible for the majority of spam emails it sees during this period, with scam activity expected to move quickly starting the week of Thanksgiving.
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