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More than 1,500 fraudulent votes were cast in the early hours of Monday in the country's annual bird election, briefly pushing the Little-Spotted Kiwi to the top of the leaderboard, organizers and environmental organization Forest & Bird announced Tuesday. Those votes - which were discovered by the election's official scrutineers - have since been removed.
Kount's offerings protect the end-to-end customer journey from fraud, and the new bot detection solution is the latest in the company's momentous year of new products, patents, partnerships, industry recognition, and more. Quadrant Knowledge Solutions named Kount #1 overall for eCommerce Fraud Detection, scoring Kount the highest for both Customer Impact and Technology Excellence.
Typing in your login data on the fake site exposes your credentials to the crooks because your password is sent to them instead of to your real mobile phone provider. As you can see from the list above, it's theoretically possible that getting your mobile phone account password hacked might give the crooks a way in to your bank account too, especially if you used the same password on your banking site as elsewhere.
Kasada, provider of the only online traffic integrity solution that accurately detects and defends against bot attacks, announced the introduction of Kasada API, which protects an organization's web and mobile APIs from automated botnet attacks and targeted fraud. "By delivering Kasada API, we are providing our customers with a holistic line of defense that not only mitigates current attacks but also deters future ones."
A former Microsoft worker was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for a scheme to steal $10 million in digital currency - money authorities said he used to buy a $160,000 car and a lakefront home. Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old Ukrainian citizen living in Renton, Washngton, was responsible for helping test Microsoft's online retail sales platform.
Plenty of voter data is public in Arizona - but Social Security numbers and DoBs are supposed to be kept confidential. The security issue comes to light amid attacks targeting voters and voter data.
Ad fraud is a subset of invalid traffic, characterized by its malicious intentions, and has been around for as long as digital advertising. Due to a lack of solutions, many advertisers have become complacent with this aggressive attrition to their ad campaigns, considering it an additional cost of online advertising.
ACI Worldwide announced ACI Fraud Management in the cloud enables Indian banks to protect the rapidly growing number of Unified Payments Interface transactions across the region. "A supportive regulatory environment, coupled with ever-increasing smartphone usage, internet access and customer acceptance, has powered rapid UPI transaction growth. However, surging transaction volumes pose a complex challenge to banks and financial institutions when it comes to upgrading and maintaining their back-end risk management systems," said Kaushik Roy, vice president and country leader - South Asia, ACI Worldwide.
BEC attacks increased 15% quarter-over-quarter, driven by an explosion in invoice and payment fraud, Abnormal Security research reveals. "As the industry's only measure of BEC attack volume by industry, our quarterly BEC research is important for CISOs to prepare and stay ahead of attackers," said Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security.
Cellusys pioneers the use of zero trust security to help their 800 million mobile phone end users combat SMS phishing and fraud. Cellusys has partnered with internet security firm MetaCert to provide an SMS security solution, using zero trust methodology to combat cyberattacks such as phishing, malware and financial fraud.