“It’s that time of the year when we see an uptick in phishing attacks due to the increase in holiday shopping, and scammers thrive when shoppers are distracted. With AI accelerating and personalizing sophisticated phishing campaigns, relying on passwords as your only defense is a major risk,” said Ronnie Manning, chief brand advocate at Yubico. “This holiday season, everyone should take steps to proactively protect their accounts with MFA and Yubico is making it easy and affordable to upgrade to the top defense that matters: phishing-resistant YubiKey security keys.”

Your Digital Security Survival Kit: Top Tips from Yubico

Before booking that flight or clicking “buy now,” Yubico urges consumers to lock in their digital security with these simple steps:

· Make multi-factor authentication a priority: With so much of our lives spent online, it’s more important than ever to ensure your digital life is protected. Before you kick off your holiday shopping this year, take some time to review your most important online accounts. By ensuring you have modern multi-factor authentication (MFA) turned on with security keys and passkeys, even if a hacker has your login credentials but does not have your security key or passkey they can’t get into your accounts. Recovering social media, email, financial and other accounts in the event your account gets hacked is a lot more work than proactively protecting your accounts with stronger authentication.

· Think before you click: Don’t fall for the fake bank fraud alerts, loan payment alerts, or attempted package delivery texts. If you are concerned about the alert, contact your financial institution or delivery service directly rather than using the link or number provided in the text message.

· Use a password manager: Use complex, unique passwords for every account. Password managers are highly recommended for secure storage and generating passwords. And better yet, always use MFA to secure your password manager.
Just in time for the holiday season, Yubico is offering discounts on its most popular phishing-resistant YubiKey security keys, available across its e-commerce store and major retail partners.

Gifting Just Got More Secure: Yubico’s Biggest Sale of the Year

Black Friday / Cyber Monday (November 24 - December 1)

· Offer: 30% off the YubiKey 5 NFC and YubiKey 5C NFC.
- Available through Yubico.com and participating retailers/resellers. (Discount applied automatically).

Holiday Shopping (December 15 - December 23)

· $10 Off (or €10 / £10 off) when you spend $100+ (or €100 / £100+ excl. VAT/Tax).
- Only available on Yubico.com.