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UK's National Cyber Security Centre fights payment card fraud

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(Telecompaper) The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) , Britain's cyber-defence centre has prevented more than one million cases of suspected payment card fraud in 2018, its annual review reveals.

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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. Holistic Defense.

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

PYMNTS

Launched in the Ukraine a decade ago, the internet-based cybercriminal enterprise stole identities, compromised debit and credit cards and personal, financial and banking information and spread computer malware, the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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Visa as gumshoe: How the card network tracks fraud to its source

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Visa is pursuing the online criminals to prevent future fraud. Visa also works with law enforcement agencies to quantify potential losses and, where possible, assist in the threat mitigation.

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Synthetic Identities: From Data Breaches to Auto Loan Fraud

FICO

Fraud and data breaches have always had a close, if destructive, relationship. As the US transitioned to hard-to-counterfeit EMV payment card technology several years ago, criminals flocked to card not present (CNP) fraud , often combining identity fragments and card numbers stolen in breaches to make illicit purchases online.

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Inside Citi's plan to combat business payments fraud with AI

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The bank is taking a concept that has worked for years in the credit card world — artificial-intelligence-based fraud detection — and applying it to corporate customers' transactions.

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Machine learning may find fraud victims before the scammers do

Payments Source

Financial institutions are hoping to get ahead of the growing and seemingly insurmountable problem of payment card fraud not just by looking at who cyber-attackers are going after currently but who they are likely to defraud in the near future.

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