Alerting users to seasonal cyber threats including fake credit card alerts, charity scams and too-good-to-be-true discounts
, /PRNewswire/ — KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today released its top five cybersecurity tips to help protect users against emerging scams during the 2024 holiday season.
The holiday season is not just prime time for shoppers, it is also open season for cybercriminals.
Holiday shoppers face increasing risks as cybercriminals ramp up their seasonal scams, costing billions of dollars each year. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report for 2023, in 2023, IC3 received a record number of complaints from the American public: 880,418 complaints were registered, with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion. This is a nearly 10% increase in complaints received, and it represents a 22% increase in losses suffered, compared to 2022. The most frequently reported crime in 2023 was phishing schemes, which use unsolicited email, text messages and telephone calls …