PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Account takeover fraud, phishing scams and friendly fraud have all seen upticks of late. Whatever a merchant does, the basic goal is the same across the ecosystem — let the maximum number of good transactions pass through seamlessly while blocking the bad ones and making the fraudster never come back.

Transactions 112

Transactions Push-to-Card Account Takeovers Fraud Prevention 112

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) rose 347 percent from 2018 to 2019 — a problem that will only worsen if financial institutions (FIs) are not vigilant. Fraudsters seek to fly under the radar by stealing information through one channel that they then use to execute ATOs or other attacks.

Scams 98

Scams Account Takeovers Online and Mobile Banking Credit Union 98

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When it comes to deploying corporate resources in the battle against online fraud and account takeovers (ATOs), all too often, guiding principles fail to spot what’s really happening to a business in real time. What also jumped out at us was the pattern of behavior after an account takeover,” Huang told PYMNTS.

Rules 63

Rules Account Takeovers Fraud Prevention Risk 63

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Fraudsters deploy a variety of different methods when attacking these apps, ranging from sophisticated methods like account takeovers (ATOs) to impersonation schemes that trick users into sending them money directly. The nation’s banks managed to reduce their financial crime losses by 374.3 billion) in attacks.

Zelle 89

Zelle P2P Scams Financial Crimes 89

Fintech News

JUNE 6, 2024

Similar to some Malaysian banks, the three local banks in Singapore have also rolled out a self-service money lock feature for consumers to independently block their banking accounts if suspected fraud attempts were made on their funds.

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Scams Phishing Deepfake Verification 106

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During this hectic time of year, merchants are particularly vulnerable to promotion abuse, account takeover and transaction fraud. “Fraudsters know that higher transaction volumes and a demand for fast processing times leave merchants vulnerable to attacks. Behavioral Biometrics Ensure You Are You .

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Volume Transactions Account Takeovers Phishing 72

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

On the “back end” of the business, Elan leverages state-of-the-art fraud detection tools to identify and prevent transactional fraud, account takeover and fraudulent applications. “This can really create a proactive communications strategy to significantly decrease the incidence of successful fraud attempts,” said Pangretic.

Fraud Detection 78

Fraud Detection Online and Mobile Banking Scams Issuers 78

PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

The FIs must decide in situations like these whether freezing the card payments will rescue the cardholders from fraudsters’ attacks or block legitimate customers from getting the items they need. Bad actors are increasingly using synthetic IDs to win loan approvals and then make off with the money with no intention of repaying.

Online and Mobile Banking 79

Online and Mobile Banking Credit Union Breach Data Breach 79

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Its AI system automatically blocks users who it determines are untrustworthy, and users can contest those decisions if they believe the AI has made a mistake. Rewards programs are especially popular among hackers as they can hold large amounts of valuable data, including payment information.

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Credential AI Account Takeovers Fraud Detection 56

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It’s expected that the number of account takeover attacks will also continue to grow. After reaching a low point in 2014, both account takeover incidence and losses rose notably in 2016, with total account takeover losses reaching $2.3 has fallen significantly behind the curve. A large chunk of U.S.

Account Takeovers 56

Account Takeovers CHIPS Chip Cards Fraud Detection 56

PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

In the latest Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of QSR rewards programs and how credential stuffing and account takeovers are plaguing the industry. When you’re looking at account takeovers, for example, it’s predominantly automated bot attacks that have an identifiable signature.

Account Takeovers 63

Account Takeovers Data Breach Bots Credential 63

The Fintech Times

JUNE 1, 2024

Swift is piloting a new enhancement to its existing Payment Controls Service, which enables financial institutions to flag or block anomalous payments before they are made.

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SWIFT AI Fraud Detection Fraud Prevention 124

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

As bad guys wrangle account details, cobble together synthetic identities and conduct account takeover attacks with ferocity, the old rules-based systems, password challenges and other lines of defense provide only part of the picture as to whether “good” customers are buying or “bad” actors are, well, getting away with it.

Issuers 83

Issuers Fraud Prevention Online and Mobile Banking Rules 83

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In terms of protection, he said that the physical Oyster cards can only be used with physical, face-to-face transactions — all card-not-present, mail order and telephone order commerce has been blocked. The separate card, he said, fosters an atmosphere of trust and safety.

Debit Card 103

Debit Card FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Account Takeovers 103

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

The research also noted a 40 percent increase compared to February in the number of blocked attempts to guide users to phishing websites for one of the most-visited gaming platforms. . The following Deep Dive examines how fraudsters’ schemes target gamers as well as how data breaches enable bad actors to commit account takeover (ATO) fraud.

Phishing 89

Phishing Data Breach Account Takeovers Verification 89

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Identity verification and authentication solutions help financial institutions (FIs) block out fraudsters, but leveraging just one or two of these offerings may not be enough. Cybercriminals do not limit their schemes to just scamming customers into sending them funds via mobile payment apps — they also often try to take over users’ accounts.

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AML Money Laundering Authentication Scams 64

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As a result, banks would do well to implement proactive account and transaction monitoring to guard against cyberattacks. They should also block access to unauthorized or fraudulent third-parties, provided they have evidence of an illegitimate transaction. Protecting APIs.

Security 76

Security Payment APIs and Integration API Authentication 76

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 19, 2024

These features use Generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) to help banks, credit unions, payments companies, and fintechs proactively detect and block risky transactions.

ACH 52

ACH Fraud Prevention AI Same Day ACH 52

The Fintech Times

APRIL 22, 2024

Despite company efforts, lax PIN hygiene and open apps on stolen devices pose serious threats, including account takeover and ransomware attacks. It provides a digital panic button, empowering individuals to block access to various services and accounts all at once if they experience smartphone theft.

Identity Theft 59

Identity Theft Consumer Online and Mobile Banking Monetary Loss 59

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Withs such high costs, said First National’s Furlong, issuers start blocking good transactions. Beyond the consumer-led disputes over charges that are in fact legitimate, there exists a growing trend of account takeover as fraudsters co-opt passwords. “We “The big question could be: ‘Could that put us over a billion in the U.S.

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Disputes Transactions Issuers Online and Mobile Banking 91

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

These businesses felt unequipped to handle mobile attacks (32 percent) and synthetic identity fraud (32 percent) in equal measures, while account takeovers posed problems for 25 percent. What’s being done about the increase in mobile attacks? Voice Ordering: The Next Fraud Frontier?

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Data Breach Breach Account Takeovers Fraud Prevention 57

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Such firms cannot grow safely without robust security measures blocking fraud and other abuses from their offerings. Immediate payments make it even more important for PSPs to ramp up surveillance of traditional fraudster schemes, such as account takeovers (ATOs), social engineering scams and synthetic identity abuse.

AML 62

AML Service Provider Real Time Payments Money Laundering 62

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A survey found that 62 percent of customers worry about fraud — such as pilfered payment details, account takeovers or fake reviews being left in their names — when interacting with QSRs. Customers’ top priority regarding restaurants is their own safety, however.

Innovation 56

Innovation Account Takeovers Fraud Detection Bots 56

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

One is account takeover — well-documented in this space — and the second type is merchant fraud. Illustrating in-place defenses against account takeover, PingPong will utilize technology that monitors the behavior of the seller.

Cross-Border 63

Cross-Border Account Takeovers Regulations Due Diligence 63

Seon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As neobanks evolve, the one downside of their innovation is that it opens up many new methods of attack for fraudsters, such as identity theft, fraud rings, and account takeover attacks. Account takeover (ATO) fraud: Brute force or stolen information is used to access an existing, legitimate bank account.

Identity Theft 52

Identity Theft Money Laundering Account Takeovers Fraud Prevention 52

Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

A BEC attack is when a fraudster gains unauthorized access to a business’s account. The most damaging form of BEC is account takeover (ATO) attacks. Ask an Expert CEO Fraud CEO fraud is a catch-all term for the exploitation of the account of a high-ranking organizational official, such as a CEO or an investor.

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Email Compromise Compromise Business Email Compromise Risk 52

Accertify

MAY 30, 2023

Account takeovers and mistaking legitimate shoppers for fraudsters can cause damage to your reputation, not to mention lost customers. Accertify Account Protection: An account protection tool that focuses on identifying risks associated with account takeovers and new account openings.

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Fraud Prevention Federal Trade Commission Technology Account Takeovers 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

High-tech schemes like credential stuffing and account takeover (ATOs) have become commonplace, but many fraudsters still rely on a technique that requires comparatively little technical know-how.

Phishing 70

Phishing Smishing Fraud Prevention Point-of-Sale (POS) 70

PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive examines the ways that bad actors try to exploit P2P payment app users via scams and account takeovers (ATOs). Criminals that successfully convince users to hand over login information can take control of the accounts and block out the original owners. Fraudulent Sellers.

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P2P Scams Security Account Takeovers 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One way to authenticate consumers and block cybercriminals is thus no longer enough for businesses to protect their users, as fraudsters begin to create attack strategies that can carefully bypass more simplistic verification measures.

Online and Mobile Banking 60

Online and Mobile Banking Fraud Prevention Authentication Account Takeovers 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The fraud community is more and more using machine learning to access data, and moving away from attacking payments directly and into account takeover, synthetic identities and other means,” Sevounts said. And the ability to assign that identity trust level with confidence will help to block out many bad actors.

Fraud Prevention 58

Fraud Prevention Push-to-Card Account Takeovers Blocks 58

Seon

MAY 8, 2024

By using thousands of real-time device signals, from geolocation and IP information to behavioral data such as battery life, phone orientation and font count, suspicious setups and settings across desktop and mobile devices can be flagged and blocked.

Online and Mobile Banking 52

Online and Mobile Banking Fraud Prevention Account Takeovers Bots 52

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Patterns of typing or computer mouse movements — an area generally known as behavioral biometrics — can help FIs keep guard against account takeovers , new account fraud and other sorts of criminal activity expected to follow the flood of TPPs into the payments world. Fraud prevention is certainly getting more sophisticated.

Fraud Prevention 41

Fraud Prevention Account Takeovers Online and Mobile Banking On-Demand 41

FICO

MARCH 16, 2021

But when the consumer provides personal data and authorization credentials, the bogus service provider captures the information and uses it to commit an account takeover. . Tasty incentives such as cash-back, rewards or discounts could be used to tempt customers to the services they pretend to offer. by Sarah Rutherford.

Money Laundering 52

Money Laundering Fraud Prevention Financial Crimes Crime 52

Seon

JULY 10, 2024

These may include various types of fraud, such as identity theft, account takeover, payment fraud and application fraud. Real-Time Decisioning : Advanced transaction monitoring services can make quick, real-time decisions about allowing or blocking transactions. Fraud transaction monitoring’s scope is narrow.

Transactions 52

Transactions Fraud Prevention Regulatory Compliance Payments 52

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

As attacks become more complex, so do the prevention measures, enabling us to monitor 2,400 transactions per second and identify and block fraud. Behavioural biometrics Other key AI-powered fraud prevention approaches gaining traction in the region include behavioural biometrics to detect account takeovers.

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AI Fraud Detection Fraud Prevention Phishing 59

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

He cautioned that security is not just a merchant problem, and that as time goes on, we’re likely to see the bad guys move quickly to account takeovers, a tempting target especially given the stimulus payments that have been making their way into bank accounts. Looking At Digital IDs — And Friction.

Cross-Border 69

Cross-Border Payments Privacy Issuers 69