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cybercrime reporters to ease discussions during These sites are targeting businesses, manufacturers
investigations and to be clear in warning retail shoppers and farmers using alluring catalogues of non-existent
and enterprises that encounter fake store websites. goods at provocative discounts. It’s time to update our
formal glossary to ease communication between
So far, APWG already categorizes ‘Fake Store’ as a industry interveners, the targeted victims and law
specific kind of malicious website that employs a domain enforcement about this burgeoning threat,” Peter
name for a fictional company purporting to serve either Cassidy explained.
retail customers or enterprise clients. That category is APWG expects that JC3’s contributions will be of great
used to distinguish fake shopping and fake business-to- use for all countries and regions that have to manage
business websites within the APWG eCrime eXchange the threats of retail and enterprise fake store websites
(eCX) via a malicious domain API endpoint. and we can just highly recommend to read the new
report. ◊
“JC3’s report is a milestone in defining fake stores. It
comes at a time when APWG correspondents globally By MediaBUZZ
are reporting increasing numbers of fake stores.

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