Whispers on the Wind: Detecting Early Fraud Indicators
August 14, 2018
Cybercrime 
The European Cybercrime Landscape Heats Up as Identity Abuse Increases by 30%
As Europe navigates a time of intense change, one constant is the steady increase in the rise of identity abuse in the region, which digital businesses face.
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Account Takeover Scheme Targeting Bank-Related Search Results
This new account takeover approach involves compromising well-trafficked business websites with plenty of five-star ratings and positive reviews, and then leveraging enviable SEO expertise to boost the sites' search rankings using financial-related search phrases.
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Cybercrime Report Reveals Surge in eCommerce Fraud Attacks
eCommerce fraud rates have remained alarmingly high well into the new year, with a total of 150 million attacks seen during the first quarter of 2018.
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Account Takeover: The Growing Face of eCommerce Fraud
According to the Q4 2017 Cybercrime Report from ThreatMetrix, online retailers faced an unprecedented level of account takeover, bot and other types of attacks last quarter – a record 193 million attacks all told. The report, which tracks actual cyberattacks...
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Central and Eastern Europe: A Growing Cybercrime Hub
For the first time ever, Russia has emerged as one of the Top 5 attack originators in the world, according to the Q4 2017 Cybercrime Report from ThreatMetrix. But its former republics and allies could soon give this new cybercrime...
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The Cybercrime Story of 2017: A Power Struggle Intensifies
In the wake of yet more large-scale data breaches throughout 2017, the battle against cybercrime has intensified to unprecedented levels. As downstream fraud and identity abuse attacks increase, investments from digital businesses in cutting-edge approaches to protect consumers and grow...
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Financial Crime and Its Role in Funding Terrorists
As 2018 gets underway, a troubling confluence of geopolitical, ideological and technological developments threaten to make cyber-fraud prevention more than just a matter of protecting businesses against new and emerging forms of financial crime. Increasingly, it’s also about national security....
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Australia’s Early Warning Signs to Online Gambling Worldwide
If you’re looking for a microcosm of the rapidly evolving threats facing online gambling captured in a new cybercrime report from ThreatMetrix, look no further than my native Australia. With apologies to Vegas, what happens Down Under doesn’t usually stay...
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Cybercrime: Exploiting Security Weaknesses in Online Merchant Platforms
Cybercrime has evolved from individual lone wolves committing fraud purely for personal profit into a sophisticated and networked criminal industry. As this criminal industry has grown, so has the scope of its many illicit activities – including raising and laundering...
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Cybercrime Report: Five eCommerce Predictions for Holiday 2017
New data from the latest ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report has online retailers bracing for what’s shaping up to be either the jolliest of holiday seasons—or the Nightmare before Christmas. Retailers enter the season quite bullish. Holiday e-commerce spending in the U.S....
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