PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The marquee names, or sites, that have been the target of law enforcement have been tied to criminal activities. That’s on top of the 12 billion records expected to be compromised this year alone, and a cumulative tally of 146 billion records accessed by 2023. onion” pages featuring the aforementioned encryption.

Law Enforcement

FICO

OCTOBER 11, 2017

They could get access by pretending to be a new merchant, and/or by compromising a merchant system to gain access to a payments channel, as well as banks’ testing and governance partitions. If stolen, these obfuscated and encrypted models may still respond to testing transactions. Just Like Neo.

AI

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently issued a warning that fraudsters are leveraging various illicit methods, including malware, phishing schemes, extortion and business email compromise (BEC) scams — all with a COVID-19 twist.

Bitcoin

Fi911

JULY 8, 2024

Social Engineering Social engineering is a manipulation technique used by criminals to deceive individuals into revealing confidential information or performing actions that compromise security. This type of fraud exploits human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities, making it challenging to detect and prevent.

Account Takeovers

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

It is effectively impossible for the vast majority of crime units to access stored phone data in a criminal investigation without the user’s permission — the downside to such secure encryption. More recently, data breaches reportedly went up 15 percent year over year with 424 million compromised data files (and this was before the Yahoo!

Crime

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In 2024, law enforcement traced a series of cryptocurrency transactions to local hawala networks, which facilitated money transfers between terrorist cells. A majority of these funds were stolen through private key compromises, phishing schemes, and decentralised finance (DeFi) exploits. billion globally.

Crime

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The company revealed Monday (July 29) that on July 19 it discovered that there was unauthorized access by an outside individual, adding that it immediately fixed the configuration vulnerability that was exploited and immediately notified federal law enforcement. Thompson, on a charge of computer fraud and abuse.

Credit Cards

EBizCharge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An incident is only considered a data breach if the confidentiality of data is compromised. Therefore, businesses must secure their networks and systems to prevent unauthorized access by deploying strong encryption, setting up firewalls, ensuring accurate user authentication processes, and more. What data was encrypted and breached?

Data Breach

CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

By encrypting down to the hardware level and leveraging blockchain technology, Filament’s decentralized network stack allows any device to connect, interact, and transact independent of a central authority. Law Enforcement. Startups are innovating to bring these benefits to law enforcement. Human Resources.

Blockchain