Global Fraud Attack Index news and trends

The Ever-Rising Cost Of Fraud
Fraud Attack // August 31, 2016

Fraudsters seem to have embraced the Puritan work ethic: Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. And they’ve been anything but idle. The hot-off-the-presses Global Fraud Attack Index™ shows that fraud attacks have jumped 137 percent over the four quarters ending March 2016. The index reveals...

Fraud Attacks Jump 137 Percent Over The Last Four Quarters
Fraud Attack // August 30, 2016

Fraudsters seem to have embraced the Puritan work ethic: Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. And they’ve been anything but idle. The hot-off-the-presses Global Fraud Attack Index™ shows that fraud attacks have jumped 137 percent over the four quarters ending March 2016. The index reveals...

eCommerce Vs. Zombie (Computers)
Retail // April 22, 2016

Zombies are so prevalent in popular culture, it was only a matter of time before the genre reached eCommerce. And it has — in the form of botnets (AKA “zombie armies”), whereby a fraudster builds a network of computers owned by unwitting participants in his...

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...