Unit 42 explores key peak shopping season retail cyber threats, from ransomware to AI attacks, and shares how to defend operations and customer trust. The post Unwrapping Retail Peak Season Cyber Threats appeared first on Unit 42.
Introduction Imagine you’ve ordered a small paper unicorn from an online marketplace. You clicked “Buy”, received a cheerful notification, and expect a courier to bring the box tomorrow. If the unicorn is delayed by a day, it will be annoying but not catastrophic: an apology, a discount promo code — and the incident is forgotten. Now let’s multiply one late unicorn by several hundred thousand orders. Packages start heading to the wrong cities. The website shows an item is in stock, even though…
L’Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale richiama l’attenzione delle organizzazioni operanti nei settori della grande distribuzione organizzata (GDO), della logistica alimentare, della refrigerazione industriale e dei servizi di manutenzione connessi, alla luce del recente incidente informatico che ha colpito numerose catene di supermercati francesi.
Domino’s Pizza customers tell us they have received emails saying they account has been accessed by a third party. Domino’s says its internal systems weren’t breached, but that individual accounts were logged into using a password and email combination stolen from another online account owned by the customer. This is known as credential stuffing. Here’s the email: “We’re getting in touch to let you know that we believe a very small number of Domino’s customer accounts were accessed by an…
Thanks to Malwarebytes research engineer Stefan Dasic for his help with this article. A name like ShipmentsFree suggests a way to save on shipping. The service does offer shipping rebates, but its Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaint record shows that some customers did not realize they had also signed up for recurring charges. We found a number of very similar websites (which triggered our spidey senses), so we investigated. Related shipping-themed domains use ShipmentsFree or ShipmentFree…
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