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Cybercrime 
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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Data Breaches: Fresh Ammunition for Cybercriminals Drives Increase in Cyberattacks
Data breaches have become a common fact of life in the digital economy. But recent months have seen data breaches on a scale that has dominated even mainstream news. For digital citizens, these breaches result in a flurry of activity...
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Cybercrime and the Internet of Things: The Need for Digital Identities
In the annals of cybercrime, few events have managed to drive home both the promise and peril of our rapidly expanding digital universe quite like the one that occurred on October 21, 2016. In a stunning blow, the massive Mirai...
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Cybercrime Report: Emerging Digital Business Models Becoming New Targets
According to the Q2 2017 Cybercrime Report from ThreatMetrix, cyberattacks hit an all-time high, at 144 million, from April through June of this year. That’s up 100 percent from 2015, putting worldwide losses from cybercrime on track to top $6...
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