| Key Takeaways | | 1. E-commerce is the second most targeted sector for DDoS and bot-based attacks in 2026 | | 2. Account takeover, bot abuse, and payment fraud are the three highest-probability threats for most e-commerce teams. All three are automated, scalable, and designed to look like normal traffic until the damage is already done. | | 3. Group-IB’s unified platform with Fraud Protection, Threat Intelligence, Digital Risk Protection, Attack Surface Management, and IR Retainer provides e-commerce security teams with intelligence-led coverage across every priority, from dark web activity targeting their platform to the fake storefronts their customers encounter. | Your platform is open 24 hours a day. So are the attacks. There’s no closing time in e-commerce, hence the importance given to e-commerce cybersecurity priorities. While your team sleeps, your checkout pages are live, your login forms are exposed, and the third-party scripts across your storefront are running without anyone watching. Attackers don’t keep business hours. They run automated tools around the clock, probing the same surfaces your customers use, waiting for the moment your defenses are thinnest. E-commerce is the second most targeted sector for DDoS and bot-based attacks in 2026. Not because the industry is careless, but because it’s valuable, always available, and built on layers of integrations that no single team has full visibility over. 73% of people surveyed in the WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 said someone in their personal network was affected by cyber-enabled fraud in 2025. Those are your customers. When fraud affects them through your platform, the trust they had in you is lost. The top 10 e-commerce cybersecurity priorities in 2026 are: account takeover prevention, geopolitical threat monitoring, bot abuse defense, AI vulnerability management, payment fraud controls, ransomware resilience, dark web monitoring, brand impersonation detection, third-party supply chain risk,