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Sumsub Tackles Growing Financial Crime Concerns; ‘Empowering Professionals’ in Second Skills Course

The Fintech Times

Emerging technology such as AI has enabled threat actors to take a sophisticated approach to fraud, with global full-cycle identity verification platform, Sumsub , revealing a 10x increase in the number of deepfakes detected worldwide from 2022 to 2023. The highest proportion of participants (41.4

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Automated Bot Attacks Surge on Social Media in 2024, AU10TIX Reveals

The Fintech Times

AU10TIX, a company specialising in identity verification and management, also reveals significant vulnerabilities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, where financial-related identity fraud has been escalating. Bots and deepfakes The rise of bots using deepfake technology to create convincing fake profiles poses an additional challenge.

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Banking Execs Must ‘Wake Up’ as Security Measures Fail to Keep Up With Biometric Fraud

The Fintech Times

Banks are coming under an increasingly intense barrage of cybersecurity attacks, and many of these now use deepfakes and generative AI to make the initial breach. This means that synthetic identity fraud is now the fastest-growing category of financial crime in the US – and costing banks as much as $6billion.

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Em Conversa: Fighting AI Fraud With AI With Lynx Tech

The Fintech Times

As of April 2023, there were 1,000 active fintechs in Latin America (LatAm) with a vast majority focusing on financial inclusion, tackling the issue of 70 per cent of the population not having access to formal financial services. This leaves many vulnerable to sophisticated AI-powered attacks like deepfakes and voice cloning.

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