Hacker gangs target PlayStation, Nike and Apple in Black Friday web scams

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Oren Todoros

Oren is a cybersecurity and digital risk intelligence expert at BrandShield, focused on protecting organizations from online fraud, brand impersonation, and phishing attacks. He writes about emerging threats across digital ecosystems and strategies for proactive brand protection at scale.

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November 28, 2021

ONLINE shopping fraud is a booming industry with PlayStation and Nike the two retailers most targeted by cybercriminals, according to a report by internet crime experts BrandShield Systems.

The AIM-listed firm scans the internet to detect counterfeit sales and what it calls online “brand abuse”.

It says that from October to November last year, suspicious “domain registrations” soared, especially at PlayStation and Nike. Apple’s Airpods were also heavily targeted.

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