Threat Actors Exploiting Black Friday Shopping Hype – 2+ Million Attacks Recorded

The report documents a major uptick in Black Friday-themed cybercrime during 2025, highlighting millions of phishing attacks and platform-specific surges—especially against gamers via Discord and Steam impersonation—where attackers distributed RiskTool variants, downloaders, and banking trojans to harvest credentials, enable crypto-mining, and monetize stolen accounts.