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Defected goods hustle brought in big bucks – for a while A pair of married scammers and their fence were sentenced to 71 months, 68 months, and 24 months in prison respectively for defrauding...

Angel Grant Analyzes Findings, Which Also Show a Surge in Mobile App FraudRSA's most recent Quarterly Fraud Report shows that "newsjacking" is increasingly empowering phishing attacks, says Angel...

It took two years and a collaborative effort of French, Belgian, Romanian and Israeli law enforcement agencies to take down an organised crime group that was behind at least 24 cases of CEO fraud...

Splunk's Jim Apger on How to Draw the Fraud Story Out of DataWhen it comes to fraud, enterprise data has a story to tell, and it's up to security and fraud leaders to know how to interpret that...

Signifyd, a San Jose, CA-based company that specializes in fraud protection solutions for e-commerce businesses, on Wednesday announced that it raised $100 million in a Series D funding round. read more

Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here...

Use of Analytics Apparently Helped to Prevent Fraud, Warn VictimsAn unusual breach notification issued by health insurer Humana shows how some organizations are identifying anomalous behaviors of...

The number of fraudulent transactions originating from a mobile app during the first quarter has increased by 200 per cent since 2015, according to RSA Security. Analysis from the team also...

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Years of massive data breaches have fueled an increase in synthetic identity fraud, in which fraudsters combine real and bogus details to...

Knowing as many details as possible about the customer, the payment and the recipient is a critical component of stopping fraud as payments become faster, says anti-fraud specialist David Barnhardt.