While you’re taking advantage of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, cyber attackers are taking advantage of the flurry of online activity to trick shoppers into handing over their money and personal details.
Shopping season scams take many forms, including illegitimate coupons, spoofed versions of popular shopping websites, fake gift cards, and phishing emails about deliveries, order confirmations, or billing problems.
For a robust defense against digital threats, consider investing in comprehensive security software like Bitdefender Ultimate Security. This all-in-one solution seamlessly combines security, identity protection, and online privacy, offering a complete package that encapsulates the company's top-tier features.
Here’s how it will keep you safe this holiday season and beyond:
1. Secure Up to 10 Devices
Scams thrive, with phishing emails and SMS messages as prime culprits. These schemes trick you into clicking on deceptive links that download malware onto your system, providing scammers a gateway to steal sensitive data and gain remote access to your computer. During the holiday rush, even the most hyper-vigilant shoppers are susceptible to inadvertently clicking on a malicious link.
Bitdefender Ultimate Security includes complete real-time data protection to keep up to 10 devices safe from e-threats. It also includes new cyber threat intelligence technologies to analyze and identify suspicious network-level activities.
Windows devices will also benefit from additional features, including a Vulnerability Assessment that checks your PC for outdated and vulnerable software or missing security patches and a Rescue Environment that removes sophisticated malware like rootkits before Windows starts.
Despite its powerful protection, Bitdefender remains lightweight. Continuously outperforming competitors, it has consistently delivered the most robust defense against viruses for the past 11 years, while maintaining the lowest impact on performance since 2013.
2. Keep Your Personal Information Private
Over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many of us will be signing up to email lists for an extra discount and completing checkout forms to make a transaction. Every form field completed is another data point a hacker could use in fraudulent activity.
Securing your personal information and passwords is a breeze with Bitdefender Ultimate Security. Enjoy unlimited VPN traffic for encrypted data, downloads, and browsing. The anti-tracker extension blocks data-collecting trackers, while the password manager simplifies the creation and management of secure passwords for all your logins.
On a Windows device, you gain extra perks, including Webcam Protection and Microphone Monitor. These features work together to thwart webcam leaks and provide insights into which apps access your device's microphone and when.
Together, these features help keep your information safe from scammers, and, bonus, you won’t have to deal with invasive advertiser activity.
3. Identity and Fraud Monitoring Across the Web
Protecting your devices and staying vigilant online will go a long way to ensuring you don’t wind up a victim of online scams. But handing personal information over to companies is inevitable, and those companies are at risk of increasingly common data breaches.
This is where identity and fraud monitoring comes in. Suppose your data is part of a leak, and a cyber attacker gets hold of it. In that case, Bitdefender Ultimate Security identity protection features will help ensure you are alerted to any suspicious activity.
Real-time fraud monitoring alerts you almost instantly when an institution requests a copy of your credit report. Meanwhile, dark web monitoring helps you take early action if your personal information is on the dark web. The SSN Tracker will alert you to any unfamiliar names or addresses associated with your social security number.
If suspicious activity is detected, Bitdefender’s credit freeze, fraud assistance, and white-glove restoration can help take the heavy lifting out of identity restoration. In the rare event that your identity is stolen, identity theft insurance and cyberattack reimbursement plans can protect you from significant financial distress.
As you navigate the tempting waves of upcoming deals and holiday shopping, remember: while you shop, cyber tricksters are on the prowl. Guard yourself against the myriad scams of the season with Bitdefender Ultimate Security—an all-in-one shield against digital threats, securing your holidays and beyond.
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