PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Idaho-based Kount has released a new product aimed at preventing insurance fraud as the industry increasingly turns to digital, and even mobile, setups. Along with the security benefits, Kount’s product will also ensure “marketing campaign efficiency and conversion,” the company added. In a Tuesday (Aug.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. Online U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Dozens of cybercriminal groups have found a home on Facebook , using the platform’s online marketplace to sell illegal services such as stolen credit card information, as well as account theft and spamming tools, according to Cisco Systems’ Talos security unit.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Google, the FBI and White Ops, along with a handful of cybersecurity companies, recently collaborated to shut down a digital ad fraud scam that used 1.7 According to a report in The Hacker News , the fake clicks were used to trick online advertisers for years and make tens of millions of dollars as a result.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

During the childhood of many millennials, the online world was in its infancy stages. With a decent amount of this age group remembering a time without internet access, it’s likely this may have contributed to their cautious nature when it comes to online identity and payment security.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And according to Ronny Yakov , CEO of The OLB Group , QuickBooks is often an ideal place to start. For The OLB Group, that meant the recently announced integration of billing and payment gateway functionality within QuickBooks. According to Yakov, before the pandemic, about 65 percent of The OLB Group's merchant base were not online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

The London-based trade group for Europe’s ePayments community is waiting for the European Banking Authority , the European Union (EU) banking regulator, to provide the 27-nation bloc with an update on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). But this has not been true for online transactions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

While the fraud ecosystem continues to rapidly develop and advance, big data may prove itself to be a strong weapon in combatting fraud. With that thought in mind, DataVisor set off on a mission to utilize harness and analyze that could potentially detect fraud and protect billions of users around the world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. Online universities have become increasingly popular among nontraditional students who need convenient and flexible class schedules.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

In comments reported earlier this week, cyber insurance security responder Tom Bennett of CFC Underwriting told The Financial Times that that claims surged in June and July. Ransomware groups tend to target people in the Anglosphere, who are seen as able to pay and deserving of what they get. Corporate Wire Fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The same premise holds true today and poses a knotty question in online commerce and FinTech: How do you know the person on the other end of a transaction is really who they say they are? And even if you do confirm their identity, how do you know that person can be trusted?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that millennials are 25 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud than consumers ages 40 and over. Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Fraud attacks’ frequency and complexity will likely continue to rise despite merchants’ best efforts to prevent them. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments. The United Kingdom’s RELX , an information and analytics firm, has meanwhile purchased fraud prevention firm Emailage to boost its own anti-fraud efforts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

An increasing number of customers want to onboard with retailers and banks through their mobile phones, putting greater pressure on businesses to provide robust, digital know your customer (KYC) checks and other security measures. The company recently announced a new online solution for onboarding fund houses. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They are connected with a Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp., The duo allegedly — and with the help of more than a dozen others — worked to deploy malware known as Dridex (aka Cridex and Bugat) and for committing wire and bank fraud. which is the group of hackers behind the Dridex malware used in phishing email attacks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Simon Armstrong, vice president of products for Entersekt , discussed the June release of the long-anticipated EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) Specification version 1.0. And in August of last year, EMVCo announced the launch of the full EMV 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) test platform.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Stolen payment information used to purchase an iPhone is one thing, but a fraudster dangling a fake beachfront property in front of a group of traveling executives is another. business travelers who often have more robust needs, like satisfying larger groups. The wider home rental space has been seeing increased fraud in recent years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Retailers focused on combating fraud have credit cards in the cross-hairs of their efforts. But ramping up the war on card fraud can introduce a new risk to companies: false positives. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. The False Positive Threat.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Enter the platforms, complete with algorithms and tools to discover and price-compare any experience or item that can be booked or rented online. They are also arbiters of CX, so online marketplaces have to provide not just delightful prices, but also actual in-app delight. This is perhaps most prevalent in the travel space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Advances in fraud decisioning have cybercrooks scrambling into the new arcana of synthetic identities and fiendish mass bot attacks, looking for any possible opening to exploit. Some industries are more prone than others, as we discovered in the latest Fraud Decisioning Playbook , a PYMNTS and Simility collaboration.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

And the price for a richer consumer experience online and via mobile — one of the defining trends of payments and commerce in 2019, and probably well into the 2020s — is that the code that creates those experiences often leave opening for fraudsters to exploit. It’s fairly new,” Dhawan said of this particular fraud and hacking threat.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Amazon , Worldpay , and Stripe — the eCommerce and payment companies — are expressing concern that a lack of preparedness by the industry to new EU security regulations could put billions of dollars of eCommerce purchases at risk. The new rules are aimed at reducing fraud. That could result in lost sales.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that millennials are 25 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud than consumers ages 40 and over. Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

ID verification startup IDnow has received a $40 million growth equity investment from private equity group Corsair Capital, according to reports. IDnow allows customers to verify their identity online with a phone, tablet or webcam via a process that uses image recognition. . IDnow is a good example of that.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 19, 2022

On July 13, 2022, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on National Security held a hearing entitled “Protecting Military Servicemembers and Veterans from Financial Scams and Fraud.” Malini Mithal testified that the FTC received over 200,000 reports of military fraud in 2021, totaling over $267 million in losses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

29) by Kaspersky Labs and the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group noted, the technology is quickly gaining ground. But those gains come with fresh concerns about digital security. Security Vulnerabilities. The main areas of security risk? As a research report released on Monday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart. In a recent interview with PYMNTS, he discussed tailoring fraud-fighting to merchants’ needs and how attention to local trends primes processors to fight money laundering and misbehavior when taking their operations global. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

One day — maybe one that has already happened for some PYMNTS readers — we might look back with fondness and nostalgia on that time when chargebacks stood as the main worry merchants and other organizations faced when it came to fraud and risk. That’s where Kevin Lee comes in. Changing Scope. The stakes could hardly be higher.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

With the speed of payments accelerating and Same Day ACH initiatives continuing to roll out, NACHA has pulled together a group of industry experts to explore API standardization as a way to facilitate faster payment speeds and greater transaction security, among other use cases.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guidance for banks on the lookout for crypto scams and fraud The turbulent cryptocurrency scene should put bankers on high alert. Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrencies are the newest and most popular field in potential financial gains through fraud. But with increased popularity comes more opportunity for fraud. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 23, 2018

Financial institutions are increasingly moving to online and mobile channels to offer better and more cost-efficient experiences to their customers. So how can your bank overcome mobile security concerns? To understand current trends in online and mobile banking […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

First Data, the global commerce-enabling technology company, announced Thursday (June 1) the launch of Fraud Detect, a fraud solution for merchants around the world. According to First Data, using artificial intelligence, Fraud Detect analyzes vast data sets to identify fraud and potential chargebacks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Microsoft issued an emergency security update for Internet Explorer after hackers were able to exploit a new flaw in several versions of the browser. Unfortunately, the security issue come right before what is expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year: the Saturday before Christmas.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The rate of contact center fraud has skyrocketed recently, growing by 350 percent during the past four years. However, call centers need to implement these security measures in a way that doesn’t introduce frictions into the customer experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

million, the group that lost the most amount of money overall was between the age of 50 and 59, filing 6,329 claims for a median loss of $209. Fraud has soared during the coronavirus, spurred by the massive shift to digital that has left doors open for scammers. PIRG Education Fund, told CNBC. “We We all need to be on our guard.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Payments Innovation Alliance, a membership group that includes financial institutions (FIs) and payment providers, has released “ Voice Payments: An Introduction and Overview ,” designed to deliver information on conversational payments and enabling technologies, including voice assistants and smart speakers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Gluck said his buddy probably didn’t see such potential “ friendly fraud ” as real fraud. “In But it is a form of friendly fraud.”. He said friendly fraud is hard to spot, nearly impossible to predict and expensive for retailers not only in terms of lost goods and revenue but in terms of their merchant risk scores.

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