Many websites around the world were taken down as a precaution or for preventative maintenance Wednesday (Oct. 21) as organizations responded to the disclosure of a widespread web vulnerability, according to multiple media reports. As PYMNTS reported Wednesday, OpenAI characterized the critical vulnerabilities in PHP,...
A traveler who has booked a real hotel can receive a fraudulent request containing the correct arrival date and reservation number. Criminals can use those details to demand payment information, warning that the room will otherwise be canceled. The European Commission’s Booking.com investigation, announced Wednesday...
OpenAI led an effort over the past two months to fix “one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory,” the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) blog post. The targets of this effort were critical vulnerabilities in PHP, an open-source programming language...
A hacking group known as CyberCartel reportedly used artificial intelligence (AI) agents from several high profile tech companies to automate cyberattacks on Latin American businesses. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Oct. 21) from The Information, citing research by the cybersecurity startup Straiker shared exclusively...
European regulators are investigating whether Booking.com has done enough to prevent scams on its platform. The European Commission (EC) announced Wednesday (Oct. 21) that it had opened a formal inquiry into whether the travel platform had violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not having...
TransUnion has introduced new solutions designed to help organizations combat synthetic identity fraud and credit washing. The company says its Credit Washing and Synthetic Fraud Scores, announced Tuesday (Oct. 20), are the first-ever “adverse-actionable” solutions of their kind in the market, meaning lenders can make credit decisions and...
State and local governments need to prepare for attackers getting inside their networks, with cybersecurity protocols that contain intrusions before they disrupt water systems, transportation, benefits payments and other essential services. That is the central recommendation of a commentary published by Route Fifty, which argues...
Google is bringing to the United States and Canada a Financial Services Verification program that already protects 2 billion internet users in 42 countries from financial scam ads, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) blog post emailed to PYMNTS. The program will be...
Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Scams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud” found in September that 78% of financial institutions...