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Phishing, fraud, and the financial sector’s crisis of trust
2025-04-08 05:00

The financial sector is under growing pressure from advanced phishing attacks and fraud, causing major financial losses and eroding customer trust. Escalation of phishing attacks While traditional...

Payment Fraud Detection and Prevention: Here’s All To Know
2025-04-03 14:53

Here are the most common and latest advancements in payment fraud strategies and payment fraud prevention tools for protecting your business.

Generative AI Is reshaping financial fraud. Can security keep up?
2025-04-01 04:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Yinglian Xie, CEO at DataVisor, explains how evolving fraud tactics require adaptive, AI-driven prevention strategies. With fraudsters using generative AI to...

Europol Warns Criminal Networks Are Embracing AI, Making Fraud Smarter and Harder to Detect
2025-03-25 15:13

“The same qualities that make AI revolutionary – accessibility, adaptability and sophistication – also make it a powerful tool for criminal networks,” Europol says.

AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud
2025-03-21 07:32

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed...

New Ad Fraud Campaign Exploits 331 Apps with 60M+ Downloads for Phishing and Intrusive Ads
2025-03-18 13:11

Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a large-scale ad fraud campaign that has leveraged hundreds of malicious apps published on the Google Play Store to serve full-screen ads and conduct...

BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Infects 1 Million Android Devices for Ad Fraud and Proxy Abuse
2025-03-18 10:01

At least four different threat actors have been identified as involved in an updated version of a massive ad fraud and residential proxy scheme called BADBOX, painting a picture of an...

US govt says Americans lost record $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024
2025-03-10 19:05

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that Americans lost a record $12.5 billion to fraud last year, a 25% increase over the previous year. [...]

Google Rolls Out AI Scam Detection for Android to Combat Conversational Fraud
2025-03-05 13:20

Google has announced the rollout of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered scam detection features to secure Android device users and their personal information. "These features specifically target...

DragonRank Exploits IIS Servers with BadIIS Malware for SEO Fraud and Gambling Redirects
2025-02-10 09:44

Threat actors have been observed targeting Internet Information Services (IIS) servers in Asia as part of a search engine optimization (SEO) manipulation campaign designed to install BadIIS...