Security News

OneSpan launches AI-based risk analytics to stop fraud
2019-02-14 03:00

OneSpan, a global leader in software for trusted identities, e-signatures and secure transactions, announced the launch of its open API, cloud-based Risk Analytics solution to help financial...

Japan's Credit Card Fraud Debacle
2019-02-13 10:18

Fraudsters Received 20 Percent Cashback for Fraudulent PurchasesA convergence of events in December in Japan led to an unprecedented spike in card-not-present fraud. New statistics from a dark web...

Healthcare email fraud: Attack attempts jump 473% over two years
2019-02-13 06:30

Proofpoint found that healthcare organisations were targeted in 96 email fraud attacks on average in Q4 2018 – a 473 percent jump from Q1 2017. More than half of these organisations (53 percent)...

Alleged SIM swapping crypto-crooks cuffed, iOS app snooping, ad-fraud botnets, and more
2019-02-09 08:39

All your extra bits and bytes of this week's infosec news in less than 5 minutes Roundup Here's a summary of more infosec news beyond what we've already reported this week – enjoy.…

20 Indicted in Multimillion-Dollar Online Fraud Scheme
2019-02-08 03:13

Federal prosecutors have indicted 20 people in a multimillion-dollar international online fraud scheme. read more

Using Gmail "Dot Addresses" to Commit Fraud
2019-02-06 16:24

In Gmail addresses, the dots don't matter. The account "[email protected]" maps to the exact same address as "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" -- and so on....

Failed Fraud Against UK Bank Abused Mobile Infrastructure
2019-02-05 10:33

Fresh SS7 Fraud Highlights Ongoing Call Routing WeaknessesA U.K. bank says no customers lost money after cyberattackers attempted account takeovers by rerouting one-time passcodes, Motherboard...

Why Fighting Card-Not-Present Fraud Remains an Ongoing Challenge
2019-02-04 17:17

The recent takedown of the xDedic marketplace—where threat actors had been buying and selling access to compromised remote desktop protocol (RDP) servers since at least 2016 and that, according to...

Why you need to use DMARC and SPF on mail servers to prevent phishing and fraud
2019-02-01 15:36

Open-source, industry standard specifications are available to protect your business, but real-world deployment is still lower than optimal.