Do Not Shop Any Online Sales Or Discounts Until You Check This
If you shop online, then you will be inundated with special offers, discounts and seasonal sales. Clicking through will take you to websites where you can buy with ease. But this is a scammer's paradise as bargain hunters search out the best prices. And now organized criminal gangs have a global ecosystem that's ready to steal your money.
This attack works through thousands of dangerous websites, stealing credit card or PayPal details as soon as they're entered. Worse, these websites look like they're from major brands, including Apple, Wayfair, Michael Kors, Wrangler Jeans and others.
The warning comes from Silent Push, which says attacks likely originate from Chinese cybercriminals, which have built 'multiple phishing websites spoofing well-known retailers,' and have abused 'online payment services such as MasterCard, PayPal, and Visa, as well as payment security techniques such as Google Pay.'
Just as with the text message attacks now sweeping across the U.S., Chinese organized criminal gangs haver built an entire attack ecosystem and infrastructure which they can either operate themselves or sell or rent to others to target different geographies.
'Our team has found thousands of domains spoofing various payment and retail brands in connection to this campaign, including: PayPal, Apple, Wayfair, Lane Bryant, Brooks Brothers, Taylor Made, Hermes, REI, Duluth Trading, Omaha Steaks, Michael Kors, and many, many more peddling everything from luxury watches to garage doors.'
Fake website 'brooksbrothersofficial[.]com'
Unlike other attacks, these websites 'don't appear to actually process transactions or purchases, but instead steal credit card information entered on a (fake) payment page.'
You will be pushed to these websites through marketplace ads or links in social media, but it could just as easily leverage SEO poisoning for specific product searches.
These are examples of the kind of website that could be included in these attacks:
But there are many thousands of domains, with similarly crafted URLs that include enough of the keywords you might expect, or use subtle misspellings or special characters to look like a genuine .com website address.
It's always dangerous to shop on any websites accessed via a link, unless you're very sure where that link had come from. Recent reports have shown how easy it is to fake marketplace ads, so they're certainly best avoided.
Fake website 'omahasteaksb ox[.]com'
If you do shop from a link, then check two things:
It's harder now to check website imagery and wording for mistakes — you can blame AI. Perfect replicas of websites, products, wording and imagery are now easy to create. These threat actors can also scrape legitimate websites for actual content.
The FBI says 'check each website's URL to make sure it's legitimate and secure. A site you're buying from should have https in the web address.'
'Despite many sites being taken down by both hosts and defenders," Silent Push says, "thousands remain active as of June 2025. In the face of these types of scaled-up, persistent threats, traditional methods appear unable to hold back the tide.'
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