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Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...

Oh, RATs! Current Fraud Detection Doesn't Catch Remote Access Trojans

Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...

From RATs to Bots: Lessons Learned from Studying Cybercrime

Banking Trojans. Targeted attacks. Ransomware. These are among the latest manifestations of cybercrime. But who are the top cybercrime groups, and what security lessons can we derive from their latest attacks? "This is definitely one of the most interesting years with regards to the criminal evolution," says Eward...

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The State of Mobile Security Maturity

As mobile threats have evolved, so has mobile security. What used to be the benchmark - mobile device management - today is merely the baseline. While organizations today develop mobile security maturity, they enhance not just device security, but also content, application and transaction security. Where does your...

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Mobile is the New Playground for Thieves

Mobility is transforming enterprises at an unprecedented rate with the continued proliferation of smart devices, explosive development of mobile apps and increased access to work files. Employees are empowered by their organizations to be more productive at virtually any time and from anywhere, adopting policies for...

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Worried About Mobile Security? You Should Be.

How important is mobile? For most businesses, mobile represents a highly profitable channel, and one that is critical in attracting new customers, especially the millennial generation. Where there is growth, there is fraud. The rise of advanced, PC-grade mobile malware, innovative fraud schemes, such as SIM swap...

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The Revised Directive on Payment Services

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed great technological changes in the financial services world and we've seen regulators struggle to keep up with them. For example, electronic payment service providers such as PayPal (later acquired by eBay) took on the challenge of facilitating global online payments....

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The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Trusteer Solutions

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying IBM Trusteer solutions. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial benefit of IBM Trusteer...

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The Thriving Malware Industry: Cybercrime Made Easy

The malware industry supplies all the components cybercriminals need to easily perpetrate malware-driven financial fraud and data theft. In today's virtual world, the scope of organizations vulnerable to malware-driven cybercrime is quite broad. In addition to banks and credit unions that are subject to online...

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Don't Fall Victim to Endpoint Protection Misconceptions: Stop Fraudsters Right Away

In online banking security, consumer endpoints are commonly considered the "weak link," and for good reason. Banks have no control over their customers' endpoints or the steps their customers take to reduce their risk. To make matters worse, fraudsters now regularly circumvent traditional endpoint protections, such as...

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The Revised Directive on Payment Services

Over the past three decades, there have been a great number of technological changes in the financial services world and regulators have struggled to keep up with them. The following white paper discusses the evolution and consequences of the Payments Service Directive and how regulation has gotten more complicated as...

Understanding Social Engineering

The title of the new book is Understanding Social Engineering Based Schemes. And its mission is three-fold, Jakobsson says. He wants to profile today's most common schemes, forecast some future trends, and help organizations build effective countermeasures. In an interview about the contents of his new book,...

Preventing Fraud in Mobile Era: Addressing Authentication, Malware and Social Engineering

Mobile has opened up many new ways for users to communicate and connect without being tied to a desk or a power outlet - and at the same time, it has presented hackers with many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and carry out attacks that cannot be detected with traditional tools used to detect attacks in web...

No Tolerance for Behavioral Problems; Combatting Fraud with Web Behavior Analytics

Websites are wonderfully efficient for businesses to market and sell their products. However, in the same way that a business would monitor transactions in a brick-and-mortar storefront, it is imperative to have visibility into website transactions to prevent financial losses from account takeover, automated attacks,...

Putting Fraud Out of Business - PSD2 Readiness and Compliance

The risk of cyber fraud is increasing faster than the total volume of financial transactions across the internet. In just two years, internet transactions increased by 200%, while fraud increased 178%...and that was exclusively in the mobile channel. Is fraud becoming better business than the business itself? The...