Four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity issues, including law enforcement agencies' crackdown on ransomware operations, how banks are building their technology stacks to counter card fraud and whether the "work from anywhere" model is beneficial for employees in the long term.
In order to counter card-not-present fraud, banks in South Africa need user and entity behavior analytics - or UEBA - and artificial intelligence says Deon Louw, head of fraud, RBB at Nedbank in South Africa.
Multiple cybercriminal groups appear to be targeting relatively new entrants in the space with phishing attacks. In what cybersecurity analysts at Group-IB call a "cannibalistic approach," these gangs are impersonating underground card shops to dupe the newbies for monetary gain.
With many countries opening up for tourists, the airline industry is seeing a rise in fraudulent credit card transactions, says Johan Waldeck, senior forensic investigator at Comair Limited, a leading South African airline company.
Australia is currently the 10th largest ecommerce market in the world by revenue. The ecommerce market value is at $33.1 billion, with an estimated growth rate of 8.9% in 2021.
As digital transformation accelerates initiatives like revenue collection, customer loyalty, and brand awareness are now primarily online....
Neiman Marcus Group says it is notifying 4.6 million of its online customers who are affected by a data breach that occurred in May 2020. The data includes personally identifiable data, payment and gift cards, online account credentials and security questions.
A new card stealer malware campaign that loads JavaScript malware from blocked domain lists to evade detection is targeting e-commerce sites that run Adobe's Magento, software security firm Sucuri reports.
In its latest quarterly fraud and payments report, Outseer notes a 58% increase in brand abuse - a trend that's only going to grow, says COO Jim Ducharme. He analyzes this and other fraud trends, including how to reduce fraud without compromising user experience.
Visa's Payment Fraud Disruption team reports that cybercriminals are increasingly using web shells to establish command and control over a retailers' servers during payment card skimming attacks.
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal recently sold on a darknet forum thousands of stolen payment and gift cards that researchers at Gemini Advisory believe were taken from the now-defunct online gift card exchange Cardpool.com.
As digital payments have skyrocketed as a result of the surge in e-commerce during the pandemic, more organizations have provided feedback on enhancing EMVCo's specifications to help fight fraud, two executives with the global technical body say.
A Russian national who co-founded the Infraud Organization's online cybercrime forum, which trafficked in stolen payment card data and was tied to more than $560 million in fraud losses, has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison.
Cybercriminal gangs operating darknet stolen payment card marketplaces are scrambling to attract customers from the now-closed Joker's Stash card market, according to the security firms Kela and Flashpoint.
Joker's Stash, the notorious underground marketplace that has specialized in the sale of stolen payment card data, is reportedly shutting down in February with its administrator claiming he will "retire" at that time, according to Gemini Advisory. Researchers say fraudsters will quickly move to other sites.
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