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Ahead of Black Friday and festive sales, over 2,000 holiday-themed fake online stores have been detected, organized into two main clusters. These sites impersonate major retailers like Amazon and use uniform holiday banners, fake trust indicators, and phishing kits to deceive shoppers. They employ urgency tactics and fake checkout pages to steal sensitive financial information. The scams are timed to activate during peak shopping periods to maximize victim traffic and financial theft. This campaign leverages social engineering, typosquatting, and e-commerce impersonation to exploit consumer trust during high-volume shopping events. Although no direct exploits target software vulnerabilities, the threat poses significant risks to consumers and indirectly to organizations handling payment and customer data. European organizations involved in e-commerce, payment processing, and consumer protection are particularly at risk. Mitigation requires proactive detection of fraudulent domains, consumer awareness campaigns, and enhanced monitoring of payment fraud. Countries with high e-commerce adoption and large consumer markets are most likely affected. The threat severity is assessed as high due to the potential financial impact and widespread exposure without requiring user authentication but relying on user interaction.

This threat involves a large-scale phishing campaign exploiting the holiday shopping season, specifically Black Friday and other festive sales periods. Two main clusters of fake online stores have been identified: one with over 750 interconnected sites impersonating Amazon and using consistent holiday-themed banners and misleading trust indicators, and another cluster within a .shop domain ecosystem mimicking well-known consumer brands. These fraudulent sites deploy identical phishing kits that include fake urgency tactics such as countdown timers and limited-time offers, designed to pressure victims into quick decisions. The checkout pages are shell pages that capture sensitive financial data like credit card details and personal information. The campaign leverages social engineering techniques, typosquatting to create deceptive domain names, and e-commerce impersonation to appear legitimate. The timing of activation during peak shopping periods maximizes victim exposure and transaction volume. While no software vulnerabilities are exploited, the threat targets human factors and trust mechanisms, making it a significant vector for financial data theft. The campaign's scale and sophistication indicate organized efforts to exploit consumer behavior during high-traffic sales events. The lack of known exploits in the wild refers to software vulnerabilities, but the phishing kits themselves are actively used to harvest data. The threat is medium severity per initial classification but considering the broad impact and potential financial losses, a higher severity rating is justified. The campaign affects the confidentiality of financial data and the integrity of consumer trust, with availability not directly impacted. No authentication is required for victims, but user interaction is essential for exploitation.

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