Ecommerce Fraud news and trends

Accertify And Signifyd Announce Integration Partnership
Partnerships / Acquisitions // October 28, 2016

Accertify and Signifyd, two providers of eCommerce fraud solutions for merchants, announced Thursday (Oct. 27) an agreement under which Accertify will integrate Signifyd’s service into its fraud management platform for enhanced fraud screening. In a press release, the companies said Accertify merchants who use the service...

MasterCard ‘Simplifies’ SMB Fraud Prevention
Mastercard // May 23, 2016

Talk about an eye-opener. Nearly nine out of 10 (86 percent) SMBs recently expressed concern about data security for their business, and more than two-thirds (67 percent) said they don’t have a great understanding of what data security means for their business. It’s then not all...

Electronics Retailer Seeing (And Fighting) Increasing Number Of Fraud Attacks
Fraud Prevention // April 20, 2016

Everyone said that fraud would move online in the U.S. post-EMV—and we now have proof that it has. A new report by PYMNTS and Forter shows that the rate of online fraud attacks has jumped by 11 percent since October, and by 215 percent since...

Online Fraud Attack Rates Soar Since October
Fraud Prevention // April 19, 2016

Everyone said that fraud would move online in the U.S. post-EMV—and we now have proof that it has. A new report by PYMNTS and Forter shows that the rate of online fraud attacks has jumped by 11 percent since October, and by 215 percent since...

Interviews & Exclusives
Risk-Based Scores and Customer Profiles Bolster Merchant Efforts Against Fraudsters

January 24, 2024
No matter the attack vector, bad actors have a singular strategy in place when it comes to eCommerce fraud, Jason Paguandas, VP and GM, Merchant Security and Fraud, Carat from Fiserv, told Karen Webster. “They want to accumulate as much data as possible, and even payment credentials,” he said, “so that they can best monetize […]

MasterCard ‘Simplifies’ SMB Fraud Prevention

May 23, 2016
Talk about an eye-opener. Nearly nine out of 10 (86 percent) SMBs recently expressed concern about data security for their business, and more than two-thirds (67 percent) said they don’t have...

Quick Reads
Accertify And Signifyd Announce Integration Partnership

October 28, 2016
Accertify and Signifyd, two providers of eCommerce fraud solutions for merchants, announced Thursday (Oct. 27) an agreement under which Accertify will integrate Signifyd’s service into its fraud management platform for enhanced fraud screening. In a press release, the companies said Accertify merchants who use the service will qualify for Signifyd’s fraud-free guarantee, under which Signifyd will […]

Retail Fraud Revenue Losses Up 94 Percent From 2014

September 17, 2015
As the mobile commerce ecosystem keeps growing, so too do the ways the less scrupulous among us can take advantage of honest retailers. That’s the gist of the annual LexisNexis...