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The ongoing banking and economic turmoil has opened the floodgates to fraudsters. In this Help Net Security video, ex-British Intelligence officer Alex Beavan, Head of Ethics and Anti-Corruption...
Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to Ukrainian citizens, and instigating fraud schemes. "The Cyber Police established that the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts in various social networks and subsequently launch advertisements that violated the norms and legislation of Ukraine," according to machine translation of the news alert issued by the police.
In this Help Net Security video, Greg Woolf, CEO at FiVerity, discusses how the emergence of sophisticated fraud tools powered by AI and recent upheavals in the banking sector have forged an ideal environment for financial fraud. This complex scenario presents considerable obstacles for financial establishments to defend themselves efficiently.
Have you ever heard of browser fingerprinting? You should! It's an online user identification technique that collects information about a visitor's web browser and its configuration preferences to associate individual browsing sessions with a single website visitor. Browser fingerprinting identifies every user's unique visitor ID associated with their sessions, even if they're days or weeks apart.
Capita, which is still dealing with a digital break-in that exposed customers' data to criminals, has scored a £50 million contract with the City of London police to run contact and engagement services for the force's fraud reporting service. The work will see Capita provide an "End-to-end customer management process" to potential victims of fraud when they contract the service.
In Germany alone, forced verification grew by 1500% as a proportion of all fraud cases, from 0.3% in the full year 2022 to 5% of all fraud in Q1 2023. In Great Britain and Europe, as well as in North America, the proportion of deepfakes among all fraud cases grew considerably from 2022 to Q1 2023.
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Apple has announced that it prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and rejected roughly 1.7 million app submissions for privacy and security violations in 2022. A total of 6.1 million app submissions were reviewed.
Digital fraud has significant financial and psychological repercussions on victims, according to Telesign. Businesses may find a new reason to fear digital fraud as the negative impacts of digital fraud on companies' brand perception and the bottom line.
The rise of AI-generated identity fraud like deepfakes is alarming, with 37% of organizations experiencing voice fraud and 29% falling victim to deepfake videos, according to a survey by Regula. In this Help Net Security video, Henry Patishman, Executive VP of Identity Verification Solutions at Regula, illustrates how increasing accessibility of AI technology for creating deepfakes makes the risks mount, posing a significant challenge for businesses and individuals alike.