India, Dec. 29 -- Every year, the holiday season brings a predictable surge in online activity. In 2025, however, the scale and sophistication of malicious activity targeting digital commerce have reached new levels. The volume of newly created malicious infrastructure, account compromise attempts and targeted exploitation of e-commerce systems is significantly higher than in previous years, reflecting how early and systematically attackers now prepare for peak shopping periods.

Threat actors began laying the groundwork months in advance, using industrialised tools and services that allow attacks to be deployed at scale across multiple platforms, geographies and merchant categories. For retailers, financial institutions and any organisat...