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U.S. Card Skimming Fraud Grows 700+% in First Half of 2022

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And card skimming is big business; the FBI estimates that “skimming costs financial institutions and consumers more than $1 billion each year.”. One of the most insidious aspects of skimming fraud is that a transaction at a compromised location usually goes through without a hitch. But here in the U.S.,

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Deep Dive: How Ad Fraud Takes A Toll On Advertisers And Publishers

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Ad fraud can wear many masks, but the most common types rely on bots, crawlers or other automated clicking methods. One type of bot-driven click fraud, known as click spamming, simulates an incredibly high number of clicks that appear to be from real devices. The Ever-Shifting Face of Ad Fraud.

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ProofPoint Warns Of Bank Trojans: A Massive Threat Executives May Overlook

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Business Email Compromise scams continue to grow and steal more corporate money than ever before. As previously highlighted by the FBI , Business Email Compromise scams are on the rise, and businesses saw a 26 percent increase in fraudulent emails during Q2 compared to Q1 — and that’s a whopping 87 percent increase compared to Q2 2017.

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Top 5 Fraud Posts for 2022: Scams, Contactless and Money Mules

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Fraud Trends for 2022: Top 5 Includes "Scamdemic" and Bad Bots. The Rise of the Bots. We heard how some customers had found that bots were being used to gain data, for example attempts to make a payment to a charity website were in fact criminals testing card details to uncover the right 3 digits for the CVV.

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Former Cambridge Analytica Staffers Launch Auspex International

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Turnbull was caught by Channel 4 news in Britain on undercover video while sitting alongside former CA Chief Executive Alexander Nix, bragging about how the firm might help compromise politicians using young women as honeypots. Facebook is facing investigations by the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S.

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