Uncertainty can turn a routine payment problem into a cost that is twice as large. That gap sits at the center of “Early Detection: Why Top Performing Firms Focus on Fraud Before It Starts,” a May edition of The 2026 Certainty Project produced by PYMNTS...
Cybersecurity and connectivity cloud provider Cloudflare introduced a new way to fight cyberattacks, according to a Monday (Aug. 31) press release. Adaptive Intelligence is a continuous real-time detection engine built to counter automated cyber threats by increasing operational costs for attackers, the release said. It...
ToxicPanda sounds like an energy drink formulated for people who regard sleep as a character flaw. It’s actually an Android banking Trojan capable of taking over phones, stealing financial credentials and initiating unauthorized transactions. Its newly discovered sequel, ToxicPanda 2.0, is bigger, more capable and...
There’s a new number in cybersecurity for CFOs to track, and it’s not the list of what was stolen. It’s the number of obligations created. Headlines this week offered a glimpse of what that new cyber math looks like. Manchester Airports Group disclosed that an...
Last month, OpenAI revealed that its agents had hacked open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face. Now, a pair of reports—one by OpenAI and the other from independent researchers—offers new details into the cybersecurity incident. For example, independent investigators METR and Redwood Research, which had...
Visa expanded the capabilities of its artificial intelligence-powered cyber risk management tool, Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), to include not only discovery of vulnerabilities but also remediation and validation, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 27) press release. Visa initially released VVAH in June...
Nasdaq Verafin and Q6 Cyber have partnered to help financial institutions identify and respond to emerging fraud and scan threats, Nasdaq Verafin said in a Thursday (Aug. 27) press release emailed to PYMNTS. The partnership will add Q6 Cyber’s dark web fraud intelligence to Nasdaq...
The U.S. payments industry does not lack fraud data. It lacks agreement about what that data means. The Accredited Standards Committee X9’s new Payment Fraud Forum, which holds its first meeting Sept. 10, is targeting exactly that problem. The initiative brings together participants including Federal...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a guide to network monitoring that it said was developed for federal agencies but can also provide help to other government organizations as well as critical infrastructure entities. CISA’s new Logging Reference Architecture guide is...