This month's BrandProtect Executive Threat Brief provides you a guide to shopping safely online during Cyber Monday and Black Friday.
Topics: black friday, cyber monday, ThreatBrief, mobile fraud
Just as the cyber-election manipulators are finishing their work, the "for-profit" population of on-line fraudsters are coming online -- launching their efforts to bilk the public between now and November 25, Black Friday, the peak of heaviest online shopping day of the year.
Mobile app fraud is dominating the first wave of this year's Black Friday cyber attacks. First reported in the New York Post, and further reported in the New York Times, a slew of imitation and copycat mobile apps have appeared online in the last few weeks - parodying trusted brands such as Dollar Tree and Foot Locker, iconic stores like Dillard’s and Nordstrom, online retailers like Zappos.com and Polyvore, and luxury-goods purveyors Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior and Salvatore Ferragamo.
What makes this wave of fraudulent applications different is the targeted platform: Apple's iOS.
Historically, the bulk of fraudulent mobile apps detected and analyzed by BrandProtect and other vendors have appeared on various android platforms and have been distributed via third party and offshore app stores. Not so with these rogue apps -- these have been discovered on the official Apple App Store.
Topics: black friday, mobile app monitoring, cyber monday, mobile malware, CISO, External Threat
From Elections Exploits to Bogus Black Friday Promotions, November is a holiday season for Cyber Criminals!
This month's BrandProtect Executive Threat Brief focuses in on the many traps that cyber criminials will set for you during this crazy time. Some will spring from the upcoming elections, others will be retail-shopping related, but all will be dangerous!
Topics: black friday, cyber monday, 2016 Elections, ThreatBrief
This is the third year that BrandProtect has investigated this online event.
Topics: black friday, Social Media Monitoring, Phishing, cyber monday, mobile malware
Topics: Brand Protection, Reputation Management, cyber monday, Risk, infographic, online threat
Do you monitor your brand on Social Media? If you do then you have taken a big step in protecting your brand online, but social media monitoring is only one slice of the brand protection pie. Scammers employ various methods in an attempt to divert, confuse and steal from your customers, which, if left unattended tarnishes your brand’s reputation.
Topics: black friday, mobile app monitoring, Brand Protection, Domain Management, Copyright Law, Social Media Monitoring, cybercrime, trademark, cyber monday, online sales
