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The United States Secret Service has announced the launch of a Cyber Fraud Task Force, created through the merger of the Electronic Crimes Task Forces and Financial Crimes Task Forces. "The creation of the new Cyber Fraud Task Force, will offer a specialized cadre of agents and analysts, trained in the latest analytical techniques and equipped with the most cutting-edge technologies. Together with our partners, the CFTFs stand ready to combat the full range of cyber-enabled financial crimes," Michael D'Ambrosio, Assistant Director, U.S. Secret Service, commented.
Always a thorn in Google's side, the Joker malware arrived as a new variant a few months ago and evaded Google Play Protect to infect legitimate apps and sign people up to premium services. Check Point researchers disclosed its findings to Google, which removed 11 identified apps from Google Play by April 30, 2020.
RSA announces that NewDay has selected and deployed RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce to deliver advanced fraud protection for digital payments and address the requirements of the EMV 3-D Secure protocol. RSA Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce helps card issuers and payments processors prevent more than 95 percent of fraud in card-not-present e-commerce transactions and provide a frictionless authentication and shopping experience for cardholders.
A Nigerian national appeared in federal court in Chicago Friday accused of orchestrating an international cyber fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say defrauded U.S. businesses in six states out of tens of millions of dollars. He appeared in court Friday morning to face a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
There has been a 200 percent increase in BEC attacks focused on invoice or payment fraud from April to May 2020, according to Abnormal Security. According to the report, invoice and payment fraud attacks increased more than 75 percent in the first three months of 2020.
An especially popular type of BEC attack is one that uses invoice or payment fraud to steal money from the targeted organization. In the first three months of 2020, invoice and payment fraud BEC attacks increased more than 75%. But the rise was even more pronounced from April to May. Over that period, the volume of these types of BEC campaigns shot up by 200% per week, with a 36% jump in the number of organizations hit by these attacks.
A Russian computer hacker who facilitated $20 million in credit card fraud and ran a sophisticated clearinghouse for international cybercriminals was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Prosecutors say Aleksei Burkov of St. Petersburg, Russia, filled a unique niche in the world of cybercrime, describing his Direct Connection website as "The most exclusive criminal forum on the web." Would-be participants had to put up a $5,000 bond and have three existing members vouch for them.
These new data services, when coupled with Jumio's identity verification solutions, deliver powerful fraud signals that help organizations better detect new account and synthetic fraud attempts. New account fraud is becoming one of the biggest problems in the digital banking era, costing the financial services industry billions each year.
The Federal Reserve published the FraudClassifier model - a set of tools and materials to help provide a consistent way to classify and better understand the magnitude of fraudulent activity and how it occurs across the payments industry. The model was developed by the Fraud Definitions Work Group, which was comprised of Federal Reserve and payments industry fraud experts.
Visa said it created the Advanced Identity Score to reduce the amount of digital identity fraud. The company described Advanced Identity Score as an effort to combine "Visa's artificial intelligence and predictive machine learning capabilities with application and identity related data to generate a risk score for new account applications to help reduce fraud, prevent negative impact to brand loyalty and trust, and eliminate operational costs due to remediation."