Memcyco Announces Next-Gen, AI Solution to Combat Fraud and Impersonation Attacks in Real Time

Memcyco’s AI-based solution enables organizations of all sizes to better protect their customers from phishing, impersonation fraud and…...

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Google has announced that it's piloting a new security initiative that automatically blocks sideloading of potentially unsafe Android apps in India, after similar tests in Singapore, Thailand, and Brazil. The enhanced fraud protection feature aims to keep users safe when they attempt to install...

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AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect

AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips...

Google Starts Blocking Sideloading of Potentially Dangerous Android Apps in Singapore

Google has unveiled a new pilot program in Singapore that aims to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords and gather sensitive data. "This enhanced fraud protection will analyze and automatically block the installation of apps that...

Tis the Season to Be Wary: Three Holiday Shopping Scams To Watch For

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, scammers nipping at your bank account… that might not be the carol you were expecting, but unfortunately it’s the frosty truth. Most everyone has tons of shopping to do in preparation for holidays, whether they’re buying gifts, decorations, or tickets to visit...

Virtual credit cards coming to Chrome: What you need to know

When youre buying things online, reducing the exposure of payment details during transactions is one way to help reduce the risk of data theft. If you can hide this payment data and switch it out for something else entirely, even better. Google is proposing to do just that for customers in the US...

Apple Pay with Visa Hacked to Make Payments via Unlocked iPhones

An attacker who steals a locked iPhone can use a stored Visa card to make contactless payments worth up to thousands of dollars without unlocking the phone, researchers are warning. The problem is due to unpatched vulnerabilities in both the Apple Pay and Visa systems, according to an academic te...

National Consumer Protection Week

National Consumer Protection Week NCPW is March 1–7. This annual event encourages individuals and businesses to learn about their consumer rights and how to keep themselves secure. The Federal Trade Commission FTC and its NCPW partners provide free resources to protect consumers from fraud, scams...

ID Thieves Turn to Snail Mail as Juicy Target for Financial Crimes

As it gets harder for cybercriminals to bypass business email compromise BEC defenses, some hackers are switching from email scams to real-mail cons. Researchers at Flashpoint said they are monitoring hacker forums where criminals are swapping tips on a growing ID theft and financial crime area,...

Joker's Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web

Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale. According to Group-IB, th...

The many faces of omnichannel fraud

The rise of new technologies, social networks, and other means of online communication have brought about compelling changes in industries across the board. For example, in retail, organizations use digital tools such as websites, email, and apps to reach out to their current and potential client...

Nearly Half of the Norway Population Exposed in HealthCare Data Breach

Cybercriminals have stolen a massive trove of Norway's healthcare data in a recent data breach, which likely impacts more than half of the nation's population. An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to breach the systems of Health South-East Regional Health Authority RHF and reportedly...

Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data

Academics at Newcastle University have proven that an attacker in possession of a minimal amount of existing information can, in an automated way, guess payment card data by exploiting weaknesses in online payment processes. The issue lies in the fact that the global payment system lacks a...

Over 1000 Wendy's Restaurants Hit by Credit Card Hackers

The Popular fast-food restaurant chain Wendy's on Thursday admitted that a massive cyber attack had hit more than 1,000 of its restaurants across the country. The burger chain did not speculate how many people may have been affected, though it did confirm that the hackers were able to steal its...

DigiCert Offers Continuous Monitoring of Digital Certificates to Defeat Fraud

It’s an interesting time for certificate authorities. On the one hand, interest has never been higher in Web encryption, privacy and transport security, thanks to Edward Snowden. But on the other hand, the last few years has seen a steady stream of compromises of CAs, mis-issued certificates and...

Quantum Encryption Makes Credit Cards Fraud-Proof

Credit card frauds are very common these days – today a data breach occurs in retailer’s shop, online shopping site or banking site and at the next moment millions of cards appears in the underground black market – how simple is that for cyber criminals nowadays. But imagine if there is no possib...

Home Depot Urges Credit Monitoring Vigilance

Home Depot told its customers today to monitor their bank and credit card accounts for fraud as it continues to investigate the “unusual activity” on its networks that could turn out to be one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history. “We’re looking into some unusual activity that might...

Facing Post-Transaction Attacks, Banks Should Reassess Fraud Protection

Banks will have to continue to upgrade their fraud protection controls, especially in the face of new and evolving attacks exclusively designed to evade them, researchers now say. A blog post, penned by Trusteer’s CTO Amit Klein, offers some research on these so-called post-transaction attack...

Google ввел новую функцию по борьбе с интернет-мошенниками

Корпорация Google сегодня запустила новую функцию для своего поискового сервиса, которая позволяет активизировать борьбу с мошенническими сайтами. Функция будет полезна как обычным пользователям, так и системным администраторам, поскольку первые видят предупреждение об опасности, а вторые —...