COVID-19 has afforded internet villains what will certainly go down as the greatest cybertheft opportunity of their shadowy lifetimes. Business email compromise (BEC), B2B phishing scams, synthetic identities, fake accounts and trillions of aid dollars flooding out at a time of maximum uncertainty make this...
A partnership between The University of Oxford, Saïd Business School and Mastercard will launch an online education program to teach business leaders about the strengths and perils of the modern day internet. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Cybersecurity experts are scrambling to fight the sheer number of different digital fraud forms that are on the rise, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this problem. Approximately 22% of U.S. consumers have been targeted by fraud attempts related to the virus, such...
Can you put a price tag on a pandemic? There’s no shortage of figures (most of them bad) trying to tally up the damage. But if you want the inside story of how America is dealing with COVID-19, look to our most universal necessity –...
According to the FTC, there have been 18,235 reports of fraudulent activity or fraud attempts related to the coronavirus since Jan. 1. In total, people have lost $13.44 million to fraud. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
The FBI joined the departments of Homeland Security, State and Treasury in issuing a joint advisory on Wednesday (April 15) about increased cyber threats from North Korea. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
While there is no shortage of new things in the world to get used to these days, cybercrime and fraud are, unfortunately, not among them. Long before we started using the terms “social distancing” or “flattening the curve,” cybercriminals were spinning up bot armies, hijacking consumer...
Small businesses are hurting, which has been reflected in record unemployment numbers, the near-total shutdown of mainstream businesses and in PYMNTS data revealing that as of about two weeks ago, a quarter of small businesses didn’t think they would survive the coronavirus pandemic at all....
For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. Get the Full...
