One look-alike TikTok Shop site set off a fifth of a security company's phishing blocks
Surfshark, which sells a VPN and a web blocker, says one suspected fake TikTok Shop domain set off 320,007 blocks among its users from May to September. That was about 19% of all the phishing blocks it recorded worldwide. Monthly blocks for that one domain climbed from 16,995 in May to 125,413 in September, and another 96,711 came in the first 20 days of October. Surfshark notes that a block is not the same as a victim, and that the domain hasn't been confirmed as phishing. These are one company's numbers from its own users.
Why it matters
A lot of beauty shopping now starts with a TikTok link, and the November 11 sale is exactly what these look-alike sites imitate. Before you pay, check that the address is TikTok's own and that you're checking out inside the app, not on a page a post sent you to.
The story so far
Surfshark's blocker records 16,995 blocks for one suspected fake TikTok Shop domain.
Monthly blocks for the same domain reach 125,413.
Surfshark publishes the figures, including 96,711 more blocks from October 1 to 20.