Protect Yourself from Black Friday & Cyber Monday Hacks and Scams [INFOGRAPHIC]

The four weeks between Black Friday and the weekend before Christmas aren’t big payouts just for retail stores. It’s the biggest pseudo-month for cybercriminals as well.

Internet crooks will be hard at work this holiday shopping season: pumping out spam emails and polluting search engine results for popular keywords with malicious websites in hopes of tricking users into divulging personal information or infecting their machines with malware to harvest the data by force.

Protect yourself and your wallet by checking out this infographic by Veracode that illustrates the hacks & scams that will be in play this Black Friday & Cyber Monday and be sure to take the necessary precautions to make sure you don't trip head-first into a scammer's trap.



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