Google and Amazon Overtake Apple as Most Imitated Brands
Summary
The report outlines the latest trends in ‘brand phishing’, a term used to describe when a hacker imitates an official website of a known brand by using a similar domain or URL. Hackers leverage a variety of methods to send links to deceptive websites, redirecting users during their web browsing experiences. During late June, Check Point researchers witnessed a fraudulent website which was trying to imitate the login page of Apple’s cloud services, iCloud. Lotem Finkelsteen, Manager of Threat Intelligence at Check Point, said: “Cyber criminals continue to focus on tricking us through the household names we trust - think Google, Amazon and WhatsApp. I expect the email phishing attacks to proliferate as we get into the second half of 2020, for all signs are pointing towards what could be an imminent cyber pandemic.
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