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The Top 6 Risks to Your Digital Storefront
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The PerimeterX Platform is a set of
cloud-native infrastructure and services
that powers an award-winning suite of
application protection solutions. The
solutions powered by the Platform protect
online businesses against automated
attacks and client-side threats, and
improve operational efficiency.
In an ever-changing security landscape, attacks are growing more sophisticated. Cybercriminals are
leveraging specialized tools and “as-a-Service” delivery of many components to perform automated
attacks. To keep pace, e-commerce organizations embracing modern application security should take
the following steps:
Six Steps To Application Security
Adopt modern
solutions
that leverage
machine learning to
proactively identify and
block automated attacks
6
Identify
product pages
that are targeted and
protect them from
scraping bots
5
Analyze
impact of
challenges on
checkouts and
abandonment
4
Evaluate and consider
technologies to
proactively block attacks
3
Consider
building a
system
to log attacks
2
Assess
potential risks
and audit exposures
1
Automated attacks
have no season.
Every holiday season is
attack season!
Automated attacks
are a growing
industry.
Daily attacks are now at the
same level as previous Cyber
5 periods. Retailers should
plan for elevated volumes
throughout the year.
downtime.
There is no
24/7
Top 3 Takeaways
4–8x
increase in gift card fraud during major
US holidays
Reason:
Shoppers increased the use of gift
cards during the pandemic to avoid in-store
shopping. Increased balances attracted
criminals to gift card pages which have less
protection than credit card pages.
56.7%
percentage increase in
scraping traffic during the
Spring of 2020
Reason:
Companies
needed to collect
competitive price and
inventory intelligence
take advantage of shifts
early in the pandemic.
20%
of shopping cart
requests were scalping
attack attempts on 8
separate days
Reason:
Tools for
automating online
purchases of hot items
are now widespread and
the market for reselling
collectible and limited
inventory items is
booming.
Checkout attacks spiked
664%
at the beginning of the
pandemic
Reason:
Criminals
sought to take advantage
of disruption and rapid
changes in online prices
and inventory.
84.7%
percent of all login
attempts in September
were from ATOs
Reason:
Early testing of
account login and
password combinations
in advance of peak
shopping days.
Benchmark Report By The Numbers
Automated fraudulent log-in
attempts to take control
of accounts
Account Takeovers
Testing recently stolen debit
and credit card data to
buy online
Carding
Carding attacks where bots
enumerate gift card numbers
to find valid combinations
Gift Card Cracking
Automated shopping bots
repeatedly purchase
in-demand items for
later resale
Scalping
Automated tools harvest
price, inventory and product
images and descriptions
without authorization
Scraping
PerimeterX tracked the most critical automated fraud attack types for this report including:
Biggest Automated Attack Threats
Facing Online Retailers
Automated Fraud
Benchmark Report
E-Commerce Edition
PerimeterX compiled and analyzed data from tens of billions
of online transactions and interactions to provide a deep dive
into the hidden behaviors and notable trends of automated
fraud attacks impacting online retailers during 2020.
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