fraud

Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law, a criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

2025: The Year AI Agents Entered Payments and Changed Who’s in Control
2025: The Year AI Agents Entered Payments and Changed Who’s in Control
December 30, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

This year, artificial intelligence shifted from assisting to acting. Agentic AI, systems that can plan multistep work, call tools and APIs, and execute tasks with...

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Why the Old Fraud Playbook Is Failing in the Age of AI Commerce
Why the Old Fraud Playbook Is Failing in the Age of AI Commerce
December 29, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Conveniences can come with a cost. And that cost, at least across digital commerce, is that...

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53% of Banks Move to Fraud Orchestration as Attacks Grow Smarter
53% of Banks Move to Fraud Orchestration as Attacks Grow Smarter
December 29, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud prevention is no longer defined by how many tools a merchant deploys, but by how well those tools work together across the full payment...

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Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data
Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data
December 26, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

The data of some Goldman Sachs clients reportedly may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident at one of the bank’s law firms. Goldman Sachs alerted investors...

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2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
December 24, 2025  |  Economy

By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock. It compounds, as...

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Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
December 24, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters. That...

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Aflac Says Cybersecurity Incident Involved Personal Information of 22.65 Million People
Aflac Says Cybersecurity Incident Involved Personal Information of 22.65 Million People
December 23, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

Insurance company Aflac said personal information associated with 22.65 million people was impacted by a cybersecurity incident within its U.S. business that the company reported...

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Rental Scams Cost Consumers $65 Million Since 2020
Rental Scams Cost Consumers $65 Million Since 2020
December 23, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says rental scams have cost consumers $65 million since 2020. That’s according to a new analysis from the FTC released...

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ServiceNow to Acquire Armis to Create Cybersecurity Solution for AI Era
ServiceNow to Acquire Armis to Create Cybersecurity Solution for AI Era
December 23, 2025  |  Partnerships

ServiceNow plans to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash and create a unified, end-to-end security exposure and operations stack. The stack will cover all...

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