December 5, 2019Computing and security company Instart has released a new product meant to fight against the practice of eSkimming, which is when criminals scan websites for personal information entered into forms ...
December 5, 2019From Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Kim Kardashian, to maybe, just maybe: You.
The rise of deepfakes — the eerily lifelike impersonations that superimpose heads onto bodies and bodies onto heads in seamless ...
December 3, 2019As mobile apps take hold in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) landscape, consumers are ordering their favorite foods for delivery. They are trading the experience of sitting down in a booth ...
December 3, 2019The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has a warning for the public: When an offer appears too good to be true, that is probably the case. One scheme that fits this ...
December 3, 2019Digital identities are growing more important and omnipresent in everyday life, and the need to keep them secure grows more pressing by the day. Financial information, Social Security numbers and ...
December 2, 2019Looking back at 2019, and at cryptocurrencies, we may well make the declaration that fraudsters got a lot more brazen … which may mean 2020 is the year lawmakers and ...
December 2, 2019China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of simply presenting ID cards, according to a report ...
December 2, 2019Insidious shopping bots infiltrate eCommerce sites year-round, but the holiday season brings them out in droves, with 20 bots for every one human, NBC reported on Saturday (Nov. 30).
Cybersecurity firm ...
December 2, 2019Some 11 million U.S. consumers were scammed into buying fake or nonexistent live concert tickets last year — a trend that puts tremendous pressure on ticket-selling platforms to ensure they ...
November 28, 2019Crypto-based donations are taking center stage this holiday season with #BitcoinTuesday.
The event on Dec. 3 is a take on GivingTuesday, which allows people to make donations to charities. The event ...
November 28, 2019Crypto startup Gladius Network announced Nov. 22 that it has shut down. The news comes after it settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year ...
November 27, 2019 The holiday shopping season is kicking into high gear with retailers working aggressively to entice customers with deals and discounts. Fraudsters, sadly, are also taking notice and are looking to ...
November 26, 2019A startup that analyzes banking activity to identify fraudulent behavior has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round, according to a report by VentureBeat.
Buguroo, a Spanish cybersecurity company, ...
November 26, 2019Synchrony Financial said a message was erroneously sent to customers about an Amazon.com card and that a data breach had not occurred, according to a report by Reuters.
On Monday (Nov. ...
November 26, 2019The FBI is investigating a hacking campaign that targeted more than a dozen U.S. utilities, some of which are located near critical infrastructure. According to The Wall Street Journal, researchers ...
November 25, 2019After using their accounts to log into specific Android apps downloaded from the Google Play store, Twitter and Facebook noted that the personal information of hundreds of users might have been accessed ...
November 25, 2019Sweden-based Detectify, a crowd-based online security company that incentivizes “elite hackers” to help developers stay abreast of security issues, has raised €21 million in a funding round, according to a ...
November 25, 2019Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is highlighting a rise in fake browser notifications this year, according to a press release.
The company said affected users have tripled every month in 2019. In June, ...
November 25, 2019As data breaches and ransomware hacks escalate, cyber protection is becoming one of the fastest-growing insurance industry sectors, a Financial Times special report indicated.
The cyber insurance sector expected to reach ...
November 25, 2019Hackers are leveraging increasingly sophisticated attacks against FIs, and have corporate transactions in the crosshairs. Will LaSala, director of security services at OneSpan, tells PYMNTS how signing (and checking the ...
November 25, 2019
Credit unions (CUs) are unique among financial institutions (FIs) for the sense of loyalty they inspire among their members. PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Index found that 65 percent of such ...
November 22, 2019Payments made through the platform economy, through the online marketplaces that bring together individual buyers and seller – sometimes far-flung – happen in an instant. So does fraud. The latest edition of ...
November 22, 2019Gift cards are a popular revenue stream for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), largely for the same reasons they are popular among retail businesses of all types: They bring in new customers, ...
November 22, 2019In the $37 billion homesharing market, fraudsters are increasingly exploiting the speed and convenience that platforms promise. As Airbnb recently learned (in a big way), failing to validate the legitimacy ...
November 22, 2019Fraud is hardly a new phenomenon in retail — in fact, it is probably safe to assume that fraud in some form or other has been there since the beginning. ...
November 22, 2019It’s been said cybercriminals look for the path of least resistance when they target businesses or online marketplaces to steal data or money.
And, increasingly, online gaming platforms — attractive to ...
November 21, 2019Internet scammers, by nature, are a resourceful lot.
They poke and prod, looking for various weaknesses to be exploited on online platforms, in company emails (as in Business Email Compromise, or ...
November 21, 2019KPMG is rolling out a new payments security solution targeting B2B payments fraud, the company said Thursday (Nov. 21).
A press release said KPMG is collaborating with cybersecurity provider nsKnox to ...
November 21, 2019Wahlburgers is one of the latest entrants in mobile order-ahead, launching its WahlClub mobile app two months ago across 19 states. But much like any ordering app, it has already ...
November 21, 2019Consumers lost some $430 billion to fraudsters via online platforms in the past two years, and that figure shows no sign of declining.
Fraudsters are prolific on eCommerce sites, and online ...
November 21, 2019Where there are credit card transactions, there are disputes. That’s especially true of transactions that happen in a card-not-present environment (as is increasingly the case), and where fraudsters are able ...
November 20, 2019There is often a significant gap between efficiency and creativity, and that’s playing out now in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), and could have impacts on payments and commerce.
The ...
November 20, 2019Cryptocurrency forensics and analysis firm Elliptic found that roughly $400 million worth of XRP tokens on the Ripple payment network is connected to illegal transactions, Elliptic said in a press ...
November 20, 2019With more than 4.1 billion user credentials exposed in the first half of 2019 alone, financial institutions (FIs) are rushing to artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent fraudsters from using them. ...
November 20, 2019 Mobile order-ahead has had an outsized impact on the entire restaurant industry, with a recent study finding that only 15 percent of restaurant meals are eaten on-premises, down from ...
November 20, 2019A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers’ data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration of JavaScript skimming, Pipka, disappears ...
November 19, 2019As its website has been hacked with code that steals shoppers’ payment information, Macy’s announced it has experienced a data breach. The website was compromised in early October, and a ...
November 19, 2019There are bad days. And then, for corporate treasury professionals, there are really bad days.
The kind of days when systems go dark, cyberattacks run rampant and managing cash flow is akin to ...
November 18, 2019Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Kenneth A. Blanco said on Friday (Nov. 15) that anti-money laundering (AML) laws will be strictly enforced in the world of cryptocurrencies.
Speaking at the ...
November 18, 2019Cybersecurity experts are warning that the next year, and beyond, will continue to present an elevated threat level to businesses at risk of payments fraud — and governments are taking ...
Computing and security company Instart has released a new product meant to fight against the practice of eSkimming, which is when criminals scan websites for personal information entered into forms ...
From Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Kim Kardashian, to maybe, just maybe: You.
The rise of deepfakes — the eerily lifelike impersonations that superimpose heads onto bodies and bodies onto heads in seamless ...
As mobile apps take hold in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) landscape, consumers are ordering their favorite foods for delivery. They are trading the experience of sitting down in a booth ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has a warning for the public: When an offer appears too good to be true, that is probably the case. One scheme that fits this ...
Digital identities are growing more important and omnipresent in everyday life, and the need to keep them secure grows more pressing by the day. Financial information, Social Security numbers and ...
Looking back at 2019, and at cryptocurrencies, we may well make the declaration that fraudsters got a lot more brazen … which may mean 2020 is the year lawmakers and ...
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of simply presenting ID cards, according to a report ...
Insidious shopping bots infiltrate eCommerce sites year-round, but the holiday season brings them out in droves, with 20 bots for every one human, NBC reported on Saturday (Nov. 30).
Cybersecurity firm ...
Some 11 million U.S. consumers were scammed into buying fake or nonexistent live concert tickets last year — a trend that puts tremendous pressure on ticket-selling platforms to ensure they ...
Crypto-based donations are taking center stage this holiday season with #BitcoinTuesday.
The event on Dec. 3 is a take on GivingTuesday, which allows people to make donations to charities. The event ...
Crypto startup Gladius Network announced Nov. 22 that it has shut down. The news comes after it settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year ...
The holiday shopping season is kicking into high gear with retailers working aggressively to entice customers with deals and discounts. Fraudsters, sadly, are also taking notice and are looking to ...
A startup that analyzes banking activity to identify fraudulent behavior has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round, according to a report by VentureBeat.
Buguroo, a Spanish cybersecurity company, ...
Synchrony Financial said a message was erroneously sent to customers about an Amazon.com card and that a data breach had not occurred, according to a report by Reuters.
On Monday (Nov. ...
The FBI is investigating a hacking campaign that targeted more than a dozen U.S. utilities, some of which are located near critical infrastructure. According to The Wall Street Journal, researchers ...
After using their accounts to log into specific Android apps downloaded from the Google Play store, Twitter and Facebook noted that the personal information of hundreds of users might have been accessed ...
Sweden-based Detectify, a crowd-based online security company that incentivizes “elite hackers” to help developers stay abreast of security issues, has raised €21 million in a funding round, according to a ...
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is highlighting a rise in fake browser notifications this year, according to a press release.
The company said affected users have tripled every month in 2019. In June, ...
As data breaches and ransomware hacks escalate, cyber protection is becoming one of the fastest-growing insurance industry sectors, a Financial Times special report indicated.
The cyber insurance sector expected to reach ...
Hackers are leveraging increasingly sophisticated attacks against FIs, and have corporate transactions in the crosshairs. Will LaSala, director of security services at OneSpan, tells PYMNTS how signing (and checking the ...
Credit unions (CUs) are unique among financial institutions (FIs) for the sense of loyalty they inspire among their members. PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Index found that 65 percent of such ...
Payments made through the platform economy, through the online marketplaces that bring together individual buyers and seller – sometimes far-flung – happen in an instant. So does fraud. The latest edition of ...
Gift cards are a popular revenue stream for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), largely for the same reasons they are popular among retail businesses of all types: They bring in new customers, ...
In the $37 billion homesharing market, fraudsters are increasingly exploiting the speed and convenience that platforms promise. As Airbnb recently learned (in a big way), failing to validate the legitimacy ...
Fraud is hardly a new phenomenon in retail — in fact, it is probably safe to assume that fraud in some form or other has been there since the beginning. ...
It’s been said cybercriminals look for the path of least resistance when they target businesses or online marketplaces to steal data or money.
And, increasingly, online gaming platforms — attractive to ...
Internet scammers, by nature, are a resourceful lot.
They poke and prod, looking for various weaknesses to be exploited on online platforms, in company emails (as in Business Email Compromise, or ...
KPMG is rolling out a new payments security solution targeting B2B payments fraud, the company said Thursday (Nov. 21).
A press release said KPMG is collaborating with cybersecurity provider nsKnox to ...
Wahlburgers is one of the latest entrants in mobile order-ahead, launching its WahlClub mobile app two months ago across 19 states. But much like any ordering app, it has already ...
Consumers lost some $430 billion to fraudsters via online platforms in the past two years, and that figure shows no sign of declining.
Fraudsters are prolific on eCommerce sites, and online ...
Where there are credit card transactions, there are disputes. That’s especially true of transactions that happen in a card-not-present environment (as is increasingly the case), and where fraudsters are able ...
There is often a significant gap between efficiency and creativity, and that’s playing out now in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), and could have impacts on payments and commerce.
The ...
Cryptocurrency forensics and analysis firm Elliptic found that roughly $400 million worth of XRP tokens on the Ripple payment network is connected to illegal transactions, Elliptic said in a press ...
With more than 4.1 billion user credentials exposed in the first half of 2019 alone, financial institutions (FIs) are rushing to artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent fraudsters from using them. ...
Mobile order-ahead has had an outsized impact on the entire restaurant industry, with a recent study finding that only 15 percent of restaurant meals are eaten on-premises, down from ...
A new version of the card skimmer resides on eCommerce checkout pages, where fraudsters steal consumers’ data as it is entered. The newest sinister iteration of JavaScript skimming, Pipka, disappears ...
As its website has been hacked with code that steals shoppers’ payment information, Macy’s announced it has experienced a data breach. The website was compromised in early October, and a ...
There are bad days. And then, for corporate treasury professionals, there are really bad days.
The kind of days when systems go dark, cyberattacks run rampant and managing cash flow is akin to ...
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Kenneth A. Blanco said on Friday (Nov. 15) that anti-money laundering (AML) laws will be strictly enforced in the world of cryptocurrencies.
Speaking at the ...
Cybersecurity experts are warning that the next year, and beyond, will continue to present an elevated threat level to businesses at risk of payments fraud — and governments are taking ...
