Cybersecurity
Socure Unveils Unified Risk Platform for Government Agencies
Tuesday 3rd February - 2:21 pm
Socure announced the launch of SocureGov RiskOS, a comprehensive new platform designed to assist government ...OpenAI Warns Malicious Links Could Undermine Agentic AI
Friday 30th January - 2:31 pm
OpenAI is elevating a risk that has quietly grown alongside autonomous AI systems: links. In new ...Equifax Launches Machine-Learning Product That Detects First-Party Fraud
Friday 30th January - 9:57 am
Equifax has launched a new machine-learning product designed to combat two forms of first-party fraud: ...Why Fraud Doesn’t Look Like Fraud to a Data Scientist
Friday 30th January - 4:00 am
Watch more: Visa Protect Fraud rarely announces itself. For most organizations, it shows up after the fact ...Sumsub Adds AI Agent Verification to Know Your Agent Framework
Thursday 29th January - 12:51 pm
Verification and fraud prevention firm Sumsub debuted its AI Agent Verification tool. The new offering is ...Google Disrupts Network That Allowed Bad Actors to Use Consumers’ IP Addresses
Wednesday 28th January - 9:30 pm
Google has disrupted a network that sold the ability to route internet traffic through consumer ...Chainalysis Says Crypto Crime Wave Fueled by Chinese Money Laundering
Tuesday 27th January - 3:07 pm
Cryptocurrency laundering was an $82 billion problem last year, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Jan. 27), ...Nike Investigates Ransomware Group’s Claims of Data Breach
Monday 26th January - 3:58 pm
Nike is investigating a potential data breach after ransomware group World Leaks claimed on its website that ...Crypto Crime Hits Record Levels as Nation-States Dodge Sanctions
Monday 26th January - 4:03 am
By most headline measures, 2025 looks like a year where crypto crime exploded. An estimated $154 ...Congress Warns of Event-Driven AI Cyber Threats
Friday 23rd January - 11:15 am
Hackers only need to get it right once to wreak havoc. This week, a congressional committee ...Citi Analysts Say Ethereum Transaction Trends Suggest ‘Address Poisoning’ Scams
Thursday 22nd January - 9:09 pm
A recent pattern of transactions on the decentralized blockchain network ethereum suggests that scammers have ...Supply Chain Cyberattack Puts Enterprise Trade Secrets at Risk
Thursday 22nd January - 5:07 pm
If enterprise cybersecurity has a primary fault line, it is the supply chain. That hard truth ...Coupang Investors Want US to Investigate S. Korea’s Handling of Data Breach
Thursday 22nd January - 10:16 am
Last year, Seattle-based eCommerce company Coupang suffered a data breach affecting millions of customers. Now, a ...Cross-Border Payments Put CFOs Under Rising AML Pressure
Wednesday 21st January - 12:09 pm
Cross-border payments are increasingly wearing two hats for growth-oriented businesses. On the one hand, as digital ...Synthetic IDs and Agent Bots Force Banks to Rethink Verification
Wednesday 21st January - 4:01 am
Growth in a digital world requires standout digital infrastructure and tooling. That’s supported by findings in ...7 in 10 Banks Increase Fraud Spending as Losses and Complexity Grow
Monday 19th January - 4:00 am
Fraud is no longer just a cost line item for banks and payment firms. It ...This Week in Stablecoins: Card Payments, Crypto Policies and Bank Pushback
Friday 16th January - 11:43 am
Stablecoins are no longer knocking on the door of mainstream finance. As the headlines this week ...Cybersecurity Shifts to Early Warning as AI Scales
Thursday 15th January - 6:58 pm
According to the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Risk in 2026 outlook, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...Bluspark Resolves Security Issues in Supply Chain Platform Bluvoyix
Wednesday 14th January - 4:14 pm
Shipping tech company Bluspark Global reportedly resolved security issues in its shipping and supply chain ...Chainalysis Says AI Scams Drove Crypto Fraud up 17% in 2025
Tuesday 13th January - 2:16 pm
Crypto scams and fraud took in at least $14 billion on-chain in 2025, up from ...Revolut Adds Call Identification Feature to Combat Impersonation Scams
Tuesday 13th January - 10:39 am
Revolut’s finance app now offers a feature designed to help combat impersonation scams. The new call ...Behind the Top Scams Consumers Face and the Defenses That Work
Tuesday 13th January - 4:01 am
Fraudsters are nothing if not creative, constantly reshaping old tricks with new technology to stay ...More Than Half of Merchants Shift Fraud Spend From People to Tech
Tuesday 13th January - 4:00 am
Merchants are discovering that fraud prevention has become less about stopping bad actors at checkout ...Betterment Says Social Engineering Attack Enabled Data Breach and Unauthorized Messages
Monday 12th January - 6:56 pm
Investing and savings app Betterment said Monday (Jan. 12) that a social engineering attack led to ...Torq Raises $140 Million for Agentic AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform
Monday 12th January - 4:28 pm
Torq raised $140 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the adoption of ...Treasury Fraud Probe Seeks Info From Minnesota Money Transmitters
Sunday 11th January - 7:38 pm
The U.S. Treasury is investigating what it calls “rampant benefits fraud” in Minnesota. As part of ...Shared Signals Are Helping Banks Stop Fraud Sooner
Friday 9th January - 4:00 am
The goal for financial institutions isn’t to keep pace with the artificial intelligence-driven evolution of ...Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition Faces EU Decision
Thursday 8th January - 2:21 pm
A regulatory decision on Google’s largest ever acquisition could be weeks away. European competition regulators will decide ...Banking Startup Kontigo Promises Refunds After Stablecoin Hack
Tuesday 6th January - 8:47 am
Banking startup Kontigo says it will reimburse more than 1,000 customers following a hack. That hack affected $340,905 ...Block and PayPal Say Scams Are Now an Industry
Tuesday 6th January - 4:00 am
Watch more: Live Roundtable with Block’s Brian Boates, Paypal’s Dave Szuchman and FTA’s Angelena Bradfield The ...47% of Merchants Say False Declines Cost Them Sales
Tuesday 6th January - 4:00 am
Merchants are discovering that fraud is no longer a problem they can solve at checkout ...What the Year’s Biggest Phishing Scams Reveal About Enterprise Blind Spots
Monday 5th January - 4:56 pm
Hackers and cyber criminals no longer look like characters in science fiction movies like The ...Cisco Eyes $2 Billion Purchase of Cybersecurity Firm Axonius
Sunday 4th January - 6:15 pm
Cisco is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Axonius for $2 billion. That’s ...Why Peak Retail No Longer Ends on Christmas Day
Friday 2nd January - 4:03 am
The day after Christmas used to mark the end of peak season. For many retailers in ...JPMorgan Fights Paying ‘Unconscionable’ Legal Fees for Frank Founder
Wednesday 31st December - 4:56 pm
Startup founder Charlie Javice was sentenced to prison in September for defrauding JPMorgan. The legal battle around ...Cybersecurity Industry Workers Plead Guilty to Ransomware Attacks
Tuesday 30th December - 4:55 pm
Three men who worked in the cybersecurity industry pleaded guilty to charges related to ransomware ...Bitcoin ATMs Become ‘Preferred Method of Payment for Scammers’
Tuesday 30th December - 2:46 pm
Scams involving bitcoin ATMs reportedly took $333.5 million from Americans from January through November, up ...AI Turns Accounts Payable Into a Strategic Control Point
Tuesday 30th December - 4:03 am
The corporate back office is undergoing a renovation, and accounts payable is at its center. For ...2025: The Year AI Agents Entered Payments and Changed Who’s in Control
Tuesday 30th December - 4:00 am
This year, artificial intelligence shifted from assisting to acting. Agentic AI, systems that can plan multistep ...Coupang Makes Billion-Dollar Apology After Record Data Breach
Monday 29th December - 8:44 am
South Korean retailer Coupang is preparing to compensate customers impacted by a massive data breach. The eCommerce company ...Why the Old Fraud Playbook Is Failing in the Age of AI Commerce
Monday 29th December - 4:03 am
Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Conveniences can come with a cost. And ...53% of Banks Move to Fraud Orchestration as Attacks Grow Smarter
Monday 29th December - 4:00 am
Fraud prevention is no longer defined by how many tools a merchant deploys, but by ...OpenAI Seeks AI Safety-Focused ‘Head of Preparedness’
Sunday 28th December - 8:23 pm
OpenAI is hiring an executive focused on AI-related risks to mental health and computer security. Writing ...Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data
Friday 26th December - 2:09 pm
The data of some Goldman Sachs clients reportedly may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident at ...2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
Wednesday 24th December - 4:03 am
By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: ...Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Wednesday 24th December - 4:01 am
The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online ...Crypto Loses the Hype but Wins the Banks
Wednesday 24th December - 4:00 am
For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle. Digital assets are ending the ...Aflac Says Cybersecurity Incident Involved Personal Information of 22.65 Million People
Tuesday 23rd December - 5:57 pm
Insurance company Aflac said personal information associated with 22.65 million people was impacted by a ...Rental Scams Cost Consumers $65 Million Since 2020
Tuesday 23rd December - 2:12 pm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says rental scams have cost consumers $65 million since 2020. That’s ...ServiceNow to Acquire Armis to Create Cybersecurity Solution for AI Era
Tuesday 23rd December - 12:41 pm
ServiceNow plans to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash and create a unified, end-to-end ...Real-Time Payments Stress-Test Bank Infrastructure
Tuesday 23rd December - 4:02 am
Watch more: Need to Know: i2c’s Marjorie Tart Real-time payments are becoming a baseline expectation in ...Coupang Faces Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Violations After Data Breach
Monday 22nd December - 8:23 pm
Coupang faces an investor class action lawsuit alleging that it violated securities laws after a ...Tariffs Expose Who Really Knows Their Suppliers
Monday 22nd December - 11:00 am
The year 2025 rewrote the realities of global trade in many ways. Supply chain choke points ...Account Takeovers Surge as Banks Scramble to Respond
Monday 22nd December - 4:00 am
Fraudsters are constantly evolving, and banks are struggling to keep up. The imbalance underscores a broader ...Senate Bill Would Create Federal Task Force to Combat Crypto Scams
Friday 19th December - 6:39 pm
A bill introduced in the United States Senate would create a federal task force to ...UK Allows Firms to Set Their Own Limits for Contactless Payments
Friday 19th December - 12:56 pm
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said rule changes that will take effect in ...Amazon Extends Payroll and Cybersecurity Help to Small Businesses
Thursday 18th December - 3:39 pm
Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. The tech giant announced ...UPS-Owned Happy Returns Tests AI to Combat Fraud
Thursday 18th December - 12:59 pm
UPS-owned reverse logistics company Happy Returns reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to combat returns ...AI-Powered Scams Force Banks Into Real-Time Fraud Defense
Thursday 18th December - 4:02 am
Watch more: The Digital Shift: Block’s Brian Boates Fraud has a new face every day. Even a ...Payments Infrastructure Now Decides Which Insurers Win
Thursday 18th December - 4:00 am
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: One Inc’s Elizabeth Hoemeke Payments are maturing into a utility ...Tricolor CEO Faces Life Sentence Over Subprime Lending Scheme
Wednesday 17th December - 2:36 pm
Federal prosecutors are accusing four executives from defunct subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings of defrauding ...Fraudsters Test the Limit of Banks’ Defenses
Wednesday 17th December - 12:23 pm
Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone. Increasingly, they persuade, fatigue or impersonate their way ...Visa and Akamai Collaborate to Solve Identity Challenges in Agentic Commerce
Wednesday 17th December - 7:00 am
Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the trust ...Fake Invoices Hit 47% of Mid-Market Companies in the Past Year
Wednesday 17th December - 4:00 am
An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is becoming ...Data Partners Emerge as the Unsung Heroes of Digital Identity
Wednesday 17th December - 4:00 am
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Trulioo’s Hal Lonas Payments and commerce security relies on the ...Third-Party Risk and AI Gave Cyberattacks the Upper Hand in 2025
Tuesday 16th December - 5:31 pm
The threats snowballed in 2025. Cyberattacks stopped being episodic crises and instead became a persistent ...SEC Signals Green Light for Finance’s Shift Toward Tokenization
Tuesday 16th December - 10:56 am
When it comes to cryptocurrency, the Securities and Exchange Commission is increasingly trading in its ...Firms See 63% Fraud Spike With Checks
Tuesday 16th December - 4:00 am
Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back ...Resemble AI Raises $13 Million to Tackle ‘Deepfake Crisis’
Monday 15th December - 4:14 pm
Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused cybersecurity firm Resemble AI has raised $13 million. The new funding, announced last ...Financial Stability Council Trains Its Lens on Cyberattacks and AI
Monday 15th December - 3:02 pm
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)’s 2025 annual report, released Friday (Dec. 11), was notable ...Scam Victims Stay Silent but Banks Pay the Price
Monday 15th December - 4:00 am
If your house were robbed or your car vandalized, you wouldn’t hesitate to report the ...ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis
Sunday 14th December - 9:42 pm
Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis. The deal, ...Block Chief Risk Officer Says Scams Test Trust After the Damage Is Done
Thursday 11th December - 4:00 am
Watch more: Need to Know: Block’s Brian Boates Scams are rising and shaping consumer loyalty in ...Instant Payments Shift Fraud Liability Into Real Time
Tuesday 9th December - 11:29 am
Beyond the victims and the billions of dollars in losses, the rise of AI-driven fraud ...78% of Shoppers Worry About Holiday Fraud Surge
Monday 8th December - 4:00 am
A recent PYMNTS Intelligence report finds that retailers will enter this year’s peak shopping season ...
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