80% of breaches originate outside of the organization, while only about 20% begin with trusted insiders, according to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s possible that because many organizations haven’t yet experienced a breach from an insider threat, they perceive external threats as the...
Big banks want social media firms to take accountability for scams that occur on their payment platforms, but that doesn’t mean reimbursing victims. Banks need to take the lead in making victims whole quickly. And big tech and telcos need to kick the scammers out of their platforms.
While financial fraud has been prevalent for years, businesses still struggle to find it among large pools of data. In this second installment on accounting fraud, a panel of experts discussed the challenges including a lack of resources, skills and tools to identify fraud.
Ukrainian cyber police raided and closed more than a dozen fraudulent call centers last week, saying the operations were running fake investment scams that involved stealing cryptocurrency and payment card details from European and Central Asian citizens.
The rapid adoption of new digital tools and solutions is exposing banks to a battery of technology risks that can bring down their operations. These growing risks have leaders on alert and taking action.
According to the 2023 study performed by ServiceNow and ThoughtLab Group:
72% of CEOs say that technology...
Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Now they’re more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more.
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Ukrainian cyber police have disrupted a fake investment scam that involved stealing cryptocurrency from the online wallets of several victims in Canada. The scammers operated out of two call centers in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, mainly targeting Ukrainian citizens living in Canada.
As countries across the globe adopted real-time payments at breakneck speed over the past year, experts said authorized push payments fraud sharply increased. APP scams nearly doubled year-over-year compared to other types of fraud. ACI Worldwide's Jackie Barwell shared fraud trends in a new report.
Each year, billions of dollars are transferred in and out of money mule accounts to support a variety of money laundering schemes. But banks are now using machine learning and AI more effectively to spot mule accounts. Two experts shared the latest approaches and tools for beefing up AML programs.
U.K. banks will soon have to reimburse customers who fall prey to authorized push payment scams. The U.K.'s Payment Systems Regulator recently released a policy that would split the reimbursement cost between sending and receiving banks and incentivize the industry to invest in fraud prevention.
Banks are facing unprecedented challenges in securing their digital ecosystems while maintaining cost efficiency. With cybercriminals increasingly targeting the financial industry, banks face risks to their reputation as trustworthy partners. With data breach costs averaging nearly $6 million per incident, banks...
Losses to fraud reported by Britain's financial services sector exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022, declining by 8% from 2021, says trade association UK Finance. About 40% of losses tied to authorized push payment fraud, in which victims get tricked into transferring funds to attackers.
Check fraud is back although, technically, it never went away. Today, cybercrime groups are openly hawking fraudulent check schemes on the Telegram messaging app. Check fraud is easier and more accessible, and it’s back in the headlines. Experts say banks need to adopt new solutions to curb losses.
The U.K. government earlier this month introduced a strategy to reduce fraud and scams called Fraud Strategy: Stopping Scams and Protecting the Public. Ken Palla, retired director of MUFG Bank, said this as an important step to combat authorized scams, which have now eclipsed unauthorized fraud.
While security tools have become more adept at detecting payloads in emails, attacks that lack known indicators and rely instead on impersonation/social engineering tactics are successfully bypassing these traditional controls and reaching inboxes. If an organization’s email security controls are not effective...
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