Fraud & Identity Theft
With generative AI enabling fraud-as-a-service at scale, legacy defenses are crumbling. The next wave of cybercrime is faster, smarter, and terrifyingly synthetic.
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Fraud & Identity Theft
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The payments giant says BioCatch’s behavioral and device intelligence will help financial institutions combat account takeovers, scams and other forms of digital fraud.
Data Breaches
Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company.
Fraud & Identity Theft
US conducts sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what officials say is a “new theater of war”.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Tech support scammers are using sponsored ads and search parameter injection to trick users into calling them.
Artificial Intelligence
Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy “ghost students” — chatbots that join online classrooms and stay just long enough to...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Security researchers flag two phishing campaigns abusing Firebase and Google Apps Script to host malware and fake login pages.
Cybercrime
The US Treasury Department US has slapped sanctions on Funnull Technology for providing support to cryptocurrency investment scams.
Data Breaches
Data broker giant LexisNexis Risk Solutions says personal information was stolen from 364,000 people in a December 2024 data breach.
Cybersecurity Funding
AI-powered threat protection startup Scamnetic has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Roo Capital.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The FBI received roughly 860,000 complaints of malicious activity in 2024, with reported losses exceeding $16.6 billion.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe, according to a UN report.
Fraud & Identity Theft
North Korean cryptocurrency thieves abusing Zoom Remote collaboration feature to target cryptocurrency traders with malware.
Artificial Intelligence
Adaptive is pitching a security platform designed to replicate real-world attack scenarios through AI-generated deepfake simulations.
Fraud & Identity Theft
FTC says reported losses to fraud exceeded $12.5 billion in 2024, with $5.7 billion lost to investment scams.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Vietnamese cybercrime gang shifts from credit card-skimming to exploiting at least two zero-day vulnerabilities enterprise software product.
Fraud & Identity Theft
San Francisco startup scores a Series B round to thwart money mule accounts, deep-fake identities, account takeovers and payment fraud.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The Justice Department announced indictments against 14 North Koreans for involvement in a scheme to pose as remote IT workers to violate sanctions and...
Cybercrime
Two Nigerian nationals, one in Mexico and one in North Dakota, have been charged for hacking into the systems of US tax preparation companies.
Artificial Intelligence
Google has released new technology to embed watermarks and flag AI-generated content across text, images, audio, and video.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Google launches Global Signal Exchange (GSE), an initiative aimed at fostering the sharing of online fraud and scam intelligence.
Fraud & Identity Theft
New York anti-bot firm says new investment will drive adoption of AI techniques and expand into digital account protection and media security.
Cybercrime
Incubated at Cambridge University’s engineering department, Featurespace's algorithmic-based solutions analyze transaction data to detect fraud cases.
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Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.
(Etay Maor)
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)
The skills that get a CISO hired are rarely the skills they are judged on later. Most security leaders are stuck in that gap. Closing it is the real job.
(Sravish Sridhar)