Cybercrooks are going after shoppers with more than 100,000 lookalike domains mimicking legitimate retailers. The copycat sites are using valid certificates to be more convincing. The total number of look-alike sites is more than 400 percent greater than the number of authentic retail domains. The suspicious domains target 20 major retailers in the U.S., UK, France, Germany and Australia. One of the top US retailers has more than 49,500 look alike domains targeting its customers.
Source: https://threatpost.com/holiday-shoppers-malicious-sites-posing-retailers/150326/