Black Friday: How to pay with your card, not your card details

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Black Friday — the first day of the Christmas sales season — is almost here, and many online stores are already advertising juicy discounts and other promotions. But sellers aren’t the only ones on the hunt for buyers. Lurking in the shadows, cybercriminals armed with banking Trojans are poised to steal the personal data and payment details of online shoppers.

Seeking online store accounts

Banking Trojans are commonly understood to be malicious programs that try to steal money through online banking and mobile banking apps. Therefore, many people assume banking Trojans are a danger only when using such sites or programs. But the reality is somewhat different: Banking Trojans can also pinch (a) billing information entered on online store websites and (b) accounts for these websites.

In the first nine months of 2018, our solutions detected activity on the part of online-shopaholic banking Trojans 9.2 million times. Trojans such as Chthonic, Betabot, Panda, Zeus, SpyEye, and others all have a track record in this field. They attempted to steal credentials, as well as bank details, from visitors to popular online stores.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/black-friday-2018/24662/