CTM360 Research Reveals 30,000+ Fake Online Shops Impersonating Fashion Brands
Summary: CTM360's FraudWear research identified more than 30,000 malicious fashion e-commerce domains across 80+ countries impersonating 350+ apparel brands, with roughly 8,000 active at any given moment and 50+ new domains registered daily. The fake storefronts replicate legitimate retail design, catalogs and checkout flows, draw traffic through sponsored ads and fake social profiles, and harvest names, emails, phone numbers, delivery details, credentials and payment data, often routing payments through authentic PayPal pages tied to money-mule or compromised accounts.
Why it matters: Attackers register 50+ new domains a day, so takedowns remove individual sites while the underlying system keeps running - and because real PayPal checkout pages front the payment, customers see a legitimate interface while their card and account data go to a money mule.
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