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Beware of Amazon Prime Day scams
This week’s Amazon Prime Days are also prime days for scammers, say researchers at security firm Avanan. It has published a brief describing the most common tricks used to separate victims from their personal information – and ultimately their money.
The company says, “Hackers are taking advantage of Amazon’s popularity to send phishing and credential harvesting emails. With the Prime Day holiday coming up, these scams will proliferate significantly. Check Point Research (CPR) has found a 37 per cent increase in daily Amazon-related phishing attacks compared to the daily average from June.
“For last year’s Prime Day, CPR witnessed an 86 per cent increase in phishing emails related to the sale, and a 16 per cent increase in phishing URLs.
Further, in June 2022, there were almost 1,900 new domains related to the word “amazon”–and 9.5 per cent of those were malicious or suspicious.”
Volkswagen’s CARIAD selects BlackBerry QNX for its new platform
Blackberry Ltd. announced last week that CARIAD, the Volkswagen Group’s software company, has selected the Waterloo, Ont.-based company’s QNX technology as one component of its software…
