phishing

Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Incoming Payments Fraud Poses ‘Silent Threat’ to Bottom Lines  
Incoming Payments Fraud Poses ‘Silent Threat’ to Bottom Lines  
February 16, 2023  |  Cybersecurity

Put up $2, and you can score $100 million. Incoming payments are the new attack vector.   And as nsKnox Chief Operating Officer Nithai Barzam and...

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EU Cracks Down on Phone Number Masking to Protect Consumers
EU Cracks Down on Phone Number Masking to Protect Consumers
December 21, 2022  |  Fraud Prevention

Phone number masking cases have caused European authorities to issue advice on how to prevent fraud. While the big European fraud trial of the moment...

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Small Businesses Increasingly Targeted by BEC Scams and Other Internet Crimes 
Small Businesses Increasingly Targeted by BEC Scams and Other Internet Crimes 
December 16, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

Criminals are using BEC scams against small businesses to steal hundred-thousand-dollar food shipments.  They are spoofing emails and domains to impersonate employees at real firms,...

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Automating Digital Identity Boosts Business Satisfaction With Fraud Tools
Automating Digital Identity Boosts Business Satisfaction With Fraud Tools
November 01, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Corporate fraud and corruption have risen since 2020, as the digital transformation that accompanied the pandemic opened new opportunities. New channels for workflows have left...

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More than Three-Quarters of Acquiring Banks Use AI to Reduce Payment Fraud
More than Three-Quarters of Acquiring Banks Use AI to Reduce Payment Fraud
October 11, 2022  |  Fraud Prevention

Digital fraud is as old as the internet itself, and bad actors continuously develop new techniques while refining old ones. Fraudsters can deploy old-fashioned confidence...

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Ingo CEO on Avoiding Account Funding’s ‘Russian Roulette’
Ingo CEO on Avoiding Account Funding’s ‘Russian Roulette’
September 13, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

“If the fraudsters find a hole, they’re going to run a bunch of transactions through it,” Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards remarked to Karen Webster....

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Seth Green’s Kidnapped Bored Ape Shows NFTs’ Growing Commercialization
Seth Green’s Kidnapped Bored Ape Shows NFTs’ Growing Commercialization
May 25, 2022  |  NFTs

Actor Seth Green’s plans to turn his Bored Ape NFT into a TV show have apparently crashed and burned just weeks before its launch after...

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Australia’s CBA Warns of False Crypto Platform Partnership Report
Australia’s CBA Warns of False Crypto Platform Partnership Report
April 19, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) released a statement on Tuesday (April 19) denouncing claims that the bank was partnering with a cryptocurrency trading platform...

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SIM Swap Fraud Spotlights Biometrics, Behavioral Analytics as Defense
SIM Swap Fraud Spotlights Biometrics, Behavioral Analytics as Defense
February 21, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

The mobile phone, increasingly, is becoming the means through which criminals are impersonating unwitting victims, and stealing from them. The FBI said earlier this month...

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