Millions of consumers are eagerly anticipating Amazon’s annual online shopping extravaganza, Amazon Prime Day. This year, Amazon is offering more than 1 million deals through a 48-hour period which begins on October 13. The annual retail event is one of the many perks included in a Prime subscription and its discounts are exclusively available to Amazon’s 150 million Prime members. In 2019, Prime Day sales were estimated to be over 7 billion U.S. dollars. But it isn’t just consumers who look forward to this annual shopping bonanza: hackers do, too. Researchers at Check Point have conducted an analysis of cyber threats related to Amazon’s Prime Day in the weeks leading up to the event. They found an alarming increase in the number of registered domains related to Amazon that are malicious. In the 30 days, there was a 21% increase in domains registered containing the word “Amazon”, compared to the previous month. More than a quarter (28%) of those domains have been found to be malicious and another 10% suspicious. Furthermore, the number of domains registered containing the words “Amazon” and “Prime” has doubled within the last 30 days, with 20% of those domains being malicious. https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/10/09/looking-forward-to-amazon-prime-day-be-cautious-hackers-are-too/
