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The cyber security threat landscape in financial services

Insights on Business

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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House Financial Services Committee forms AI working group

American Banker

Lynch, the council will explore how artificial intelligence is influencing the development of new products and services, fraud prevention and other areas across the financial services and housing industries. Led by Congressmen French Hill and Stephen F.

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KPMG: How AI Defense Can Counter Faster Payments Fraud

PYMNTS

Such a scenario stands as a terrifying example of not only the sophistication of criminals, but also the threat of fraud in a real-time payments environment. Ron Plesco, principal of Cyber Security, and Bob Ruark, principal of Banking and Financial Services Strategy and KPMG’s FinTech leader in the U.S. The antidote?

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Another Group of Hackers Target Swift, According To Symantec

PYMNTS

A second hacking group is targeting banks through the Swift Inerbank Messaging system, according to a report out from cyber-security firm Symnatec yesterday (Oct. The group is leveraging similar but distinct tactics from the group that orchestrated an $81 million hack of Bangladesh’s Central Bank earlier this year.

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

PYMNTS

Using the slogan, “In Fraud We Trust,” the group directed traffic and potential purchasers to sites of its members, which served as online conduits to traffic in stolen identification, financial and banking information, malware and other illicit goods, according to the complaint. In April, a joint study by the U.S.

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Things worth reading: 15th March 2017

Chris Skinner

The post Things worth reading: 15th March 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Data: The new causes of mobile payments fraud

Payments Source

Account takeover (ATO) fraud currently drives the largest fraud losses at North American financial institutions within digital channels, according to a new report from Aite Group and Early Warning, the bank organization that operates the Zelle payment network brand.

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