A range of cybersecurity threats — including account takeover (ATO), credit card fraud, web scraping, API abuses, Grinch bots, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks — were a persistent challenge for the e-commerce industry throughout 2022, threatening online sales and customer satisfaction.
The State of Security Within eCommerce 2022 report, a 12-month analysis by Imperva Threat Research, identified cyber threats facing online retailers. The attacks on retailers’ websites, applications, and APIs throughout the calendar year and during the peak holiday shopping season is a continued business risk for the retail industry.