PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Digital fraud continues to flourish, with recent surveys finding that security breaches have increased 67 percent since 2014 and 11 percent since 2018. billion personal records exposed in a variety of ways: 52 percent through hacking; 33 percent via phishing; and 32 percent through social engineering, with many involving more than one method.

Bots 59

Bots Cybersecurity Phishing Fraud Prevention 59

PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Many cybercriminals rely on bots to conduct their schemes, leveraging automated data skimming programs that can overwhelm banks’ defenses through sheer volume. We like to think of [bots] like bacteria,” Raghu Valipireddy, senior vice president and chief information security officer at Axos Bank, told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

Bots 56

Bots Ransomware Blocks Credential 56

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Phishing scams were on the rise all year, while a survey of online shoppers found that 40.3 percent had falsely claimed a charge on their credit card was fraudulent to score a refund. About The Tracker.

Fraud Prevention 75

Fraud Prevention Posting Multifactor Authentication Scams 75

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

And that has made it more critical than ever for firms of all types and descriptions to think hard about taking a more balanced approach to fraud prevention — but think more holistically about the field they are protecting. If you look at the customer journey from end to end, the fraud starts not just around payments.

Account Takeovers 94

Account Takeovers Fraud Prevention Push-to-Card Accounts 94

Seon

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are many paths to successful ATO fraud. This could be accidental, or more sophisticated, for example following a mass phishing email campaign. To target these accounts, fraudsters often rely on spear-phishing techniques (targeted phishing), or SIM-Swapping attacks.

Account Takeovers 52

Account Takeovers Accounts Fraud Prevention Fraud Detection 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Combatting aggressive online fraudsters calls for asymmetrical strategies that confound mal-bots with superhuman processing power. Email phishing scams seem so Y2K that it’s hard to believe how effective they are, even against corporations protected by fancy firewalls. Then multiply that by the 4.1 The figures are staggering.

Data Breach 57

Data Breach Phishing Breach Bots 57

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

These credential abuse attacks come in a variety of forms, with some hackers choosing to overwhelm API defenses with simultaneous logins from a host of bots and others using more targeted techniques like phishing individual API developers and using their login credentials.

MFA 96

MFA Risk Security API 96