What you need to know
- Amazon Prime Days pose as a perfect opportunity for hackers to target users' wallets and extract sensitive information from them.
- Data shows that, in June alone, 1,200 new domains associated with Amazon cropped up, of which 85% were flagged as malicious or suspected of being malicious.
- Hackers usually disguise themselves as Amazon reps or even create look-alike pages to dupe people into sharing financial information.
- Some of them may even reach out to victims via social media DMs on the pretext of offering massive discounts or free shipping of the products.
