Over 2,000 Fake Shopping Sites Spotted Before Cyber Monday

CloudSEK found over 2,000 fake sites impersonating Amazon and top brands before Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Learn the key fraud signs now to stay safe.

Shoppers looking for great deals this holiday season need to be extra careful, as a massive operation involving over 2,000 fake online stores has been found, timed perfectly to steal money and personal details during peak sales like Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Cybersecurity firm CloudSEK recently discovered this huge network and shared its research with Hackread.com. According to CloudSEK’s analysis, these aren’t isolated incidents; they are highly organised operations using identical methods to trick people, making this one of the largest coordinated scam efforts seen this shopping season.

The fake sites were identified by their suspicious resource usage and recurring templates. This operation includes two main groups: one with over 750 interconnected sites, 170 of which impersonate Amazon ...