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Meet Grey Nickel, the AI Crime Syndicate Targeting Banks and Crypto Across Asia

Fintech News

At the centre of this threat is Grey Nickel , a sophisticated cybercriminal group using deepfakes, synthetic identities, and AI-powered attack tools to breach banks, crypto exchanges, and digital payment platforms. Consider Hong Kong, where in early 2024 a deepfake scam tricked a corporate employee into transferring USD $25.6

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FinCEN warns banks about deepfake threat

Finextra

The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued an alert to help banks to spot GenAI-generated deepfake scams.

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Undetectable Scams: How the Combination of Deepfakes and Large Language Models Will Change the Game

BioCatch

Just because they chose a life of crime doesn’t make them inherently lazy. In fact, they’ve demonstrated a level of creativity and problem solving that has made digitally enabled crimes, such as scams, harder and harder to stop. Criminals aren’t slouches when it comes to technology – quite the contrary.

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Tuum and Sumsub Team Up to Enhance Fraud Prevention for Financial Institutions

Finovate

The integration of Sumsub’s compliance solutions will help financial institutions deal with the growing threat of fraud and financial crime. This includes a global, fourfold increase in AI-driven deepfake scams.

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Deepfakes Threaten To Become The New BEC Scam

PYMNTS

The business email compromise (BEC) scam continues to rear its ugly head at the enterprise, with the global pandemic creating even more avenues through which cyber attackers can steal company money. At the heart of BEC and other scams is impersonation. The Pandemic's Security Impact.

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The growing threat of AI-enabled fraud

Neopay

According to a recent report by the National Crime Agency (NCA), GenAI represents one of the most substantial threats to the fraud landscape today. Fraudsters are exploiting GenAI tools such as large language models (LLMs), voice cloning, and deepfakes to carry out increasingly sophisticated scams that are harder to detect and prevent.

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USD $2.2 Billion Stolen Despite Decline In Global Crypto Crime

Fintech News

The world witnessed an alarming escalation in cryptocurrency -related crimes in 2024. trillion in 2024, up 56% from the previous year, the shadow economy of digital crime has grown increasingly sophisticated. trillion in 2024, up 56% from the previous year, the shadow economy of digital crime has grown increasingly sophisticated.

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