it.com Domains
Looking back at this year's Prime Day: Check Point researchers counted nearly 7,000 (!!) Amazon-themed domains registered in the months before the sale opened on June 23. Around one in eleven were flagged as malicious or suspicious.
Big sales bring phishing crews out in force. A ticking countdown turns careful people into fast clickers.
The address bar is worth a look before you click: an extra word tacked on, or a letter swapped to look almost right. It won't catch everything, subdomains and lookalike characters can slip past, but it's a cheap first check.
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