A pair of Massachusetts men allegedly ran a years-long scheme that used SIM swapping and other hacking techniques to target executives in order to steal more than $550,000 worth of cryptocurrency, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
One in ten eCommerce dollars is declined during payment authorization. Yet up to 70 percent of these orders are placed by legitimate customers who can afford to make the purchase.
Securing user accounts from both bots and human attackers has become one of the most fundamental challenges of delivering modern applications and services. Attackers continuously develop ever more sophisticated techniques for taking over user accounts.
Aggressive security policies lead to false positives and...
Only ~20% of companies use DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, global anti-domain-spoofing standards, which could significantly cut down on phishing attacks. But even when they are enabled and your domain is more secure, 81% of phishing attacks still continue to sail right through to the end-user.
In this webinar, Roger Grimes,...
Using the largest repository of breached credentials in the world, SpyCloud has analyzed breach data tied to Fortune 1000 employees to understand what information is out there and how it can be used to commit fraud. In this video, SpyCloud Head of Product Strategy Chip Witt will walk through SpyCloud's analysis of...
The enterprise has embraced the public cloud. But tension and misalignment between CloudOps and business stakeholders impedes your organization from achieving all that it can.
Moreover, customers expect speed, scale and business agility from the cloud. CloudOps require continuous governance of security,
compliance...
Armed with billions of stolen records, fraudsters create synthetic identities to apply for credit cards, loans, and other types of credit causing unprecedented losses to financial institutions.
Download this brief to find out how to block application fraud from the start.
The mobile and online channels are the future; being able to authenticate returning customers and determine who new applicants really are will be essential to successfully expanding product offerings in high-risk digital channels.
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How payment innovation is impacting fraud...
Application fraud continues to be a significant problem for FIs across the U.S. As identity crimes continue to grow, it is increasingly difficult for FIs to determine who they are dealing with in all delivery channels.
Download this whitepaper to learn the effects of online application fraud in the banking industry...
A Texas resident has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and sending out approximately 2 million phishing emails to steal hundreds of credit and payment card numbers.
A Singapore man allegedly ran a large-scale cryptocurrency mining scheme that involved using stolen identities to access Amazon and Google cloud computing resources, according to a 14-count U.S. Justice Department indictment.
123456, password, password1: These are a few of the top passwords used by Fortune 1000 employees whose passwords and personally identifiable information have been exposed in third-party breaches. While the dangers of easy-to-guess passwords are well-known, even employees at top companies are guilty of bad password...
Nation-state attackers have been targeting known flaws that customers have yet to patch in their Pulse Secure, Palo Alto and Fortinet VPN servers, Britain's National Cyber Security Center warns, adding that any organization that didn't immediately apply patches should review logs for signs of hacking.
A large-scale banking botnet has targeted approximately 800,000 Android devices belonging to Russian citizens since at least 2016, according to a new research report by a trio of cybersecurity researchers.
"Cyberattacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today," reads gaming company Zynga's data breach notification, thus breaking the first rule of crisis management: Own your mistakes. Hacker Gnosticplayers claims the company was still storing passwords using outdated SHA1.
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