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Visa Targets Bot-Driven Financial Fraud with New AI Feature

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Visa reports that 33% of accounts targeted by enumeration attacks experience fraud within five days of the breach. Key benefits of the VAAI Score include enhanced fraud prevention and reduced operational losses by detecting complex enumeration patterns swiftly.

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Banking Bots: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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Digital fraud continues to flourish, with recent surveys finding that security breaches have increased 67 percent since 2014 and 11 percent since 2018. Casualties of these breaches in the first half of 2019 alone include 4.1 Developments From Around the World of Digital Fraud. About the Tracker.

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Sumsub Combats Fraud Networks in APAC With Upgraded Solution

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Sumsub, a global verification provider, is addressing the sharp increase in fraud networks in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with its enhanced Fraud Prevention Solution. This tool is designed to help businesses tackle fraud rings, account takeovers, chargeback fraud, and bot attacks.

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Could DoorDash Data Breach Stoke Mobile Ordering Fears?

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Another day, another data breach – at least it seems that way sometimes. In the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital ordering, including the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), especially for QSRs protecting themselves against fraud. problematic.

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Deep Dive: Reducing The Security Risks Of Open Banking

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Open banking comes with security risks, however, as a hacker that manages to breach an open banking API can hijack all of the apps that harness this interface to gather data. One 2018 study found that 81 percent of open banking-related breaches were the result of stolen or weak passwords.

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How ‘Dynamic Friction’ Could Be Online Fraud’s Kryptonite

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But it’s in service of a larger, very important point: Online fraudsters are much smarter than they were just a decade ago, and slavish adherence to rule-based fraud prevention systems will, essentially, leave a door or two open for those criminals to come through. Okay, that’s hyperbolic. Numbers Game.

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Is No-Factor Authentication Digital Security’s Future?

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Though there is much that individual firms and the industry as a whole can do to stem the hemorrhage of sensitive data into the hands of cybercriminals – via better encryption, storage and anonymization of data – there is a staggering amount of data already out there from previous breaches that is useful to fraudsters.