Bots Credential Data Breach 
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2021
Banks have reported myriad fraud threats over the past year, including various forms of identity fraud and bot activity, and are working overtime to develop countermeasures. Bot activity is the third major threat banks faced in 2020. utilize unique passwords for each of their accounts, for example.
PYMNTS
JUNE 29, 2020
The most popular technique, credential abuse, involves fraudsters using compromised passwords and other login information to gain access to sensitive systems. One 2018 study found that 81 percent of open banking-related breaches were the result of stolen or weak passwords. There were 85.42 million were aimed at the financial industry.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 19, 2019
In the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of QSR rewards programs and how credential stuffing and account takeovers are plaguing the industry. Here are some examples of restaurants and retailers that have bounced back from mobile data breaches and what they are doing to ensure security.
PYMNTS
JULY 13, 2020
Bad actors attempting ATOs seek to gain control of victims’ bank accounts without alerting FIs, and they therefore aim to obtain the login credentials necessary to smoothly move through FIs’ authentication measures. Some of these attacks see bots entering random words and numbers, while others involve entering common usernames and passwords.
Finovate
AUGUST 14, 2024
Built on the company’s Document Verification (DocV) solution, Selfie Reverification also detects signs of deepfaking, and readily identifies age discrepancies between the photo and the credential. Credential stuffing is a common attack in part because it takes advantage of the tendency of individuals to reuse usernames and passwords.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 28, 2020
If they’re not grabbing stolen credentials off the Dark Web then they’re neck-deep in buyer-seller collusion, or the long con of keeping fake accounts in good standing … just enough to drain them and abscond. Try wrapping your mind around the price tag of the average corporate data breach at $3.92 million per incident.
PYMNTS
APRIL 24, 2018
When someone becomes a victim of ATO, they lose more than money and login credentials — they lose confidence. First, these attacks can have a rolling effect: Once a fraudster gains access to a consumer’s credentials at one eCommerce merchant, he holds the key to a potential myriad of other digital stores at which to exploit them.
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