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What Is Account Takeover Fraud (ATO)? Detection & Prevention

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In this guide, we’ll see why accounts are targeted, how fraudsters acquire them, and, of course, which steps you should take to secure them. This is your complete guide to understanding and detecting account takeover (ATO) fraud in your business. What Is Account Takeover Fraud?

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Report: Fraudsters Have Modified Approaches In Wake Of eCommerce Boom

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“Cybercriminals are well aware that merchants are setting higher thresholds for blocking transactions, which is a major flaw of rules-based fraud prevention strategies.”. He said rules-based systems often fail to find high-dollar fraudulent transactions, but do often block legitimate transactions along the way.

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New Report: How Behavioral Analytics Help FIs Block Fraud At The ITM

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Hacking, cybercrime and various forms of digital fraud are a never-ending worry for digital-first banks, with fraudsters leveraging techniques as diverse as phishing schemes, identity theft, account takeovers and botnets to target both banks themselves and their customers.

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Unit21 Brings New ACH Fraud Prevention Measures to FIs, Payments Companies and Fintechs Using AI

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These features use Generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) to help banks, credit unions, payments companies, and fintechs proactively detect and block risky transactions.

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Taking the Preemptive Strike to Thwart Rising Scams and Fraud in ASEAN Banking

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Similar to some Malaysian banks, the three local banks in Singapore have also rolled out a self-service money lock feature for consumers to independently block their banking accounts if suspected fraud attempts were made on their funds.

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Why Fighting Fraud Means Looking Beyond The Transaction

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Account takeover fraud, phishing scams and friendly fraud have all seen upticks of late. Whatever a merchant does, the basic goal is the same across the ecosystem — let the maximum number of good transactions pass through seamlessly while blocking the bad ones and making the fraudster never come back.

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5 Common Types of Fraud that Threaten Neobanks

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As neobanks evolve, the one downside of their innovation is that it opens up many new methods of attack for fraudsters, such as identity theft, fraud rings, and account takeover attacks. Account takeover (ATO) fraud: Brute force or stolen information is used to access an existing, legitimate bank account.