Recent high-profile security breaches have shown how cyber criminals are actively exploiting expanded network perimeters and weak authentication implementations to drive successful account takeovers and fraud across financial services. The New York Department of Financial Services Report on the 2020 Twitter hack...
The ongoing lockdown may be complicating the path of Cupid's arrows. But as another Valentine's Day rolls around, authorities are warning that romance scammers - and other types of fraudsters - are alive and well and have been increasingly preying on unsuspecting victims around the world.
Bad bots are on every website with a login page. Even yours. Hackers and fraudsters use bots to validate sets of login credentials, gain access to credit card data, and sell personally identifiable information on the dark web They also use stolen account data to transfer money, purchase goods, or spread a specific...
SpyCloud has fresh research into account takeover trends and finds that attacks have recently spiked by 300%. Chip Witt explains the trends behind the stats and offers insight into what enterprises often are overlooking in their ATO prevention strategies.
Malwarebytes researchers have uncovered unusual payment card skimming code designed to harvest data that is already being stolen by other hackers on a website.
The mobile channel saw great user adoption in 2020 - and it saw a corresponding increase in fraud incidents. Tim Dalgleish of BioCatch discusses mobile fraud trends and the role of behavioral biometrics in enhancing user authentication.
Brand impersonation – it isn’t just a marketing or reputational issue. It’s an InfoSec problem, says Shashi Prakash, CTO and co-founder of Bolster. He describes the growing problem and why security is best positioned to lead detection and response.
In this interview with Information Security Media Group,...
Websites advertising pirated and cracked software are being used to deliver an updated version of the DanaBot banking Trojan, which can steal individuals' online banking credentials, according to Proofpoint.
Why Start With Identity?
As more government organizations move their citizen services to mobile and cloud-based platforms, ensuring the validity of those benefits claims is more important than ever. Many are adopting an identity centric security model as a framework for prevention of risk and fraud.
Researchers from Trend Micro have found a new infostealer malware strain, written in the AutoHotkey programming language, that is capable of stealing banking credentials from different web browsers.
A cybercriminal gang known as "UltraRank" has launched a new campaign, targeting at least a dozen e-commerce sites to steal payment card data using a JavaScript sniffer, says security firm Group-IB.
IBM Trusteer reports that a hacking group is using mobile emulators to spoof banking customers' mobile devices and steal millions of dollars from banks in the U.S. and Europe.
Email is still the #1 attack vector the bad guys use. A whopping 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email, but email hacking is much more than phishing and launching malware!
Join us as we explore 10 ways hackers use social engineering to trick your users into revealing sensitive data or enabling malicious...
Mitigation of identity fraud requires a combination of technologies that complement one another and are easy to manage. Adding a new solution requires looking beyond fraud management to the customer experience, including all stages of the customer lifecycle. It is critical to have safe and secure customer onboarding,...
Digital banking has become the single most effective channel for financial institutions to drive growth, increase revenue and attract new customers. Yet, it also introduces more risk, and cybercriminals are following the money right into the online account opening process.
Today, a staggering 85% of financial...
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