Cybersecurity

According to the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Risk in 2026 outlook, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

Shipping tech company Bluspark Global reportedly resolved security issues in its shipping and supply chain ...

Crypto scams and fraud took in at least $14 billion on-chain in 2025, up from ...

Revolut’s finance app now offers a feature designed to help combat impersonation scams. The new call ...

Fraudsters are nothing if not creative, constantly reshaping old tricks with new technology to stay ...

Merchants are discovering that fraud prevention has become less about stopping bad actors at checkout ...

Investing and savings app Betterment said Monday (Jan. 12) that a social engineering attack led to ...

Torq raised $140 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the adoption of ...

The U.S. Treasury is investigating what it calls “rampant benefits fraud” in Minnesota. As part of ...

The goal for financial institutions isn’t to keep pace with the artificial intelligence-driven evolution of ...

A regulatory decision on Google’s largest ever acquisition could be weeks away. European competition regulators will decide ...

Banking startup Kontigo says it will reimburse more than 1,000 customers following a hack. That hack affected $340,905 ...

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Merchants are discovering that fraud is no longer a problem they can solve at checkout ...

Hackers and cyber criminals no longer look like characters in science fiction movies like The ...

Cisco is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm Axonius for $2 billion. That’s ...

The day after Christmas used to mark the end of peak season. For many retailers in ...

Startup founder Charlie Javice was sentenced to prison in September for defrauding JPMorgan. The legal battle around ...

Three men who worked in the cybersecurity industry pleaded guilty to charges related to ransomware ...

Scams involving bitcoin ATMs reportedly took $333.5 million from Americans from January through November, up ...

The corporate back office is undergoing a renovation, and accounts payable is at its center. For ...

This year, artificial intelligence shifted from assisting to acting. Agentic AI, systems that can plan multistep ...

South Korean retailer Coupang is preparing to compensate customers impacted by a massive data breach. The eCommerce company ...

Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Conveniences can come with a cost. And ...

Fraud prevention is no longer defined by how many tools a merchant deploys, but by ...

OpenAI is hiring an executive focused on AI-related risks to mental health and computer security. Writing ...

The data of some Goldman Sachs clients reportedly may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident at ...

By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: ...

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online ...

For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle. Digital assets are ending the ...

Insurance company Aflac said personal information associated with 22.65 million people was impacted by a ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says rental scams have cost consumers $65 million since 2020. That’s ...

ServiceNow plans to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash and create a unified, end-to-end ...

Watch more: Need to Know: i2c’s Marjorie Tart Real-time payments are becoming a baseline expectation in ...

Coupang faces an investor class action lawsuit alleging that it violated securities laws after a ...

The year 2025 rewrote the realities of global trade in many ways. Supply chain choke points ...

Fraudsters are constantly evolving, and banks are struggling to keep up. The imbalance underscores a broader ...

A bill introduced in the United States Senate would create a federal task force to ...

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said rule changes that will take effect in ...

Amazon Business is offering new benefits to members of its Business Prime program. The tech giant announced ...

UPS-owned reverse logistics company Happy Returns reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to combat returns ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift: Block’s Brian Boates  Fraud has a new face every day. Even a ...

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: One Inc’s Elizabeth Hoemeke Payments are maturing into a utility ...

Federal prosecutors are accusing four executives from defunct subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings of defrauding ...

Fraudsters no longer break in by force alone. Increasingly, they persuade, fatigue or impersonate their way ...

Visa and cybersecurity and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to strengthen the trust ...

An attack that begins with a trusted vendor rather than a masked hacker is becoming ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Trulioo’s Hal Lonas Payments and commerce security relies on the ...

The threats snowballed in 2025. Cyberattacks stopped being episodic crises and instead became a persistent ...

When it comes to cryptocurrency, the Securities and Exchange Commission is increasingly trading in its ...

Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused cybersecurity firm Resemble AI has raised $13 million. The new funding, announced last ...

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)’s 2025 annual report, released Friday (Dec. 11), was notable ...

If your house were robbed or your car vandalized, you wouldn’t hesitate to report the ...

Workflow automation platform ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase cybersecurity startup Armis. The deal, ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Block’s Brian Boates Scams are rising and shaping consumer loyalty in ...

Beyond the victims and the billions of dollars in losses, the rise of AI-driven fraud ...

A recent PYMNTS Intelligence report finds that retailers will enter this year’s peak shopping season ...

Companies may be chasing automation, but late payments and cash flow strain are pushing a ...

Reported ransomware incidents and payments dropped in 2024 after law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ...

Trade tariffs are only as effective as the oversight backing them. The tariff-heavy environment is fueling ...

Visa blocked 280% more suspected fraud attempts on Black Friday in the United Kingdom this ...

One of the world’s largest cyber insurance firms is reportedly reducing its U.S. cyber business ...

A data breach at Coupang has exposed personal information of nearly 34 million customers. The eCommerce ...

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert Friday (Nov. 28) reminding ...

The European Parliament and the European Council advanced rules that they said would provide consumers ...

Marketplace scams are emerging as one of the fastest growing threats facing holiday shoppers, taking ...

 Visa — Sam Hamilton, Head of AI and Data In January, Hamilton was prescient about artificial ...

Online marketplaces have spent the last decade layering payments and financial tools into their platforms. Now, ...

Anthropic published research Monday (Nov. 24) showing its Claude Opus 4.5 model, released the same ...

Watch more: Digital Shift: Block’s Brian Boates Across the double-edged sword of technology, it’s fraud that ...

The FBI’s Internet Crime Compliant Center is cautioning the public that cybercriminals are impersonating financial ...

Cargo theft is now “primarily cyber-enabled,” an FBI agent said in a Tuesday (Nov. 25) ...

Amazon announced actions taken against three groups of counterfeiters operating on its platform. In one action, ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rescinded its rule that required telecommunications carriers to safeguard ...