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Data theft and computer scams, Merry Christmas

The US nonprofit consumer watchdog organization Consumer Reports has recently spread an alert on online purchases benefiting of Cyber Monday sales and more in general of discounts for this holiday season. The large diffusion of new services on mobile platforms and social networks was accompanied with a sensible increase of cyber crimes, mainly of identity theft. McAfee listed the most top 12 scams for the period, they arent totally new, the majority is a revisiting of old fraud schemas, following top five of the list: Malicious Mobile Apps Travel Scams Holiday Spam/Phishing.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/10585/cyber-crime/data-theft-and-computer-scams-merry-christmas.html

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