Black Friday is celebrated every November 26, and businesses take the opportunity to settle discounts and offers that attract consumers. In many cases such offers are used by criminals to deceive with false free products or impersonating a parcel company and commit cyber scams.

Since 2012, Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday have become popular in Spain and other countries, which aims to offer important discounts to its customers at the beginning of Christmas. The eCommerce and physical stores accumulate sales record for that date.

The purchase of products online increases during Black Friday, activating cybercrime. The cybersecurity company ESET conducted a study where it determined the four most common cyber scams for this occasions:

• Free products: This strategy is very popular within cyber scammers, who use social media to fill out a survey or intervene the likes to end up scamming customers through “pay in a click”.
• Delivery company spoofing: Cyber criminals pretend to be a delivery o transportation. They send an email or SMS with the name of a well-known company in the market (Phishing) and when the message is opened it runs a ransomware that encodes the computer files and requests a reward for their decoding.
• Typing Errors: ‘Typesquatting’ is a big threat. The cyber attackers takes advantage of the errors users make when typing a web address. They  use it to redirect to a fake page, with a name very similar to the original, which was designed to host malicious ‘software’ that infect the user’s device, offer contests or advertisements for unreliable services to steal users’ data or money.
• Amazing discounts: It is important that users apply common sense to differentiate a real offer from a cyber scam. It is very significant that they check if it really is a legal page by looking at the spelling, the content it displays, or the description of the company. Also, they should contact the company directly and carefully observe the comments of other clients.

M. Rodríguez

Source: europapress

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As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin increase in value, hand in hand with increasing use, the pressure on central banks grows even more.

If the most popular digital asset in the world is taken into consideration, it is observed how it has reached $ 50,000 per unit hand in hand with the growth of its popularity in the world of investors.

The world’s major central banks set out last October how a digital currency could work, although progress has been slow. In fact, the statement from last week’s G7 finance ministers meeting did not mention anything about this new technology.

It should be noted that in recent times, access to money from central banks has been limited for financial institutions, so the idea of ​​bringing it to the general public could generate economic and financial repercussions.

Given this situation and all the aforementioned factors, different central banks have opted for the creation and implementation of their own digital assets to go hand in hand with the evolution of the digital economy.

This is how we can see, for example, the People’s Bank of China that has already announced the issuance of its own cbdc, as well as the Riksbank of Sweden and the Bank of Canada.

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE) have started consultations, although ECB President Christine Lagarde said last month that any digital euro would take years. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) and the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) have taken a back seat.

K. Tovar

Source: Investing

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