More of us will be avoiding the malls and brick-and-mortar stores this year, which opens up big opportunities for cybercriminals. This, along with the usual garden-variety holiday scams, we re likely to see more phishing attacks both directly and indirectly related to the pandemic. Email phishing scams are still around and just as successful as they ve always been. Text-based or SMS smishing threats are also on the rise, Verizon s 2020 Mobile Security Index says.
Source: https://threatpost.com/online-holiday-shopping-phishing/161412/