2023 Holiday Season API Security Report

Cybercriminals Play the Long Game Against Retail Businesses

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Attackers are changing up their game against retailers, investing the time and energy to be more subtle, spreading out attacks over longer periods of time to fly under the radar to make the most of holiday sales. The Cequence CQ Prime Threat Research team discovered some surprising trends:

  • In the second half of 2023 alone, gift card fraud grew by 110%, while scraping, loyalty card and payment card fraud increased by a collective average of over 700%
  • Account takeovers (ATOs) increased a staggering 410 times!

Download the report to see more trends and learnings gleaned from Cequence’s unique API threat intelligence database.

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