account takeover

Account takeover is a fast-growing form of identity theft. An account takeover (or ATO) is the malicious access of an online account, by a fraudster or bad actor, posing as a genuine customer, gaining control of an account, an making unauthorized transactions.

Radius Bank’s Approach To Collective Intelligence In Fraud Prevention
Radius Bank’s Approach To Collective Intelligence In Fraud Prevention
July 22, 2020  |  Fraud Prevention

Call it the great tug-of-war. Fraudsters are teaming up to form elaborate rings that work in sync to launch account takeovers. But to beat highly...

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Deep Dive: Securing P2P Apps Against Scams And ATOs
Deep Dive: Securing P2P Apps Against Scams And ATOs
July 21, 2020  |  AML

A need for faster and easier ways to pay during the pandemic has quickly made peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps popular among U.S. consumers. Consumers of...

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Visa Launches Advanced Identity Score To Help FIs Fight Application Fraud
Visa Launches Advanced Identity Score To Help FIs Fight Application Fraud
June 22, 2020  |  VISA

It’s the battle against fraud that can be lost right at the beginning. Bad actors, are, increasingly, targeting online card applications, using stolen personally identifiable...

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Why Fraudsters Like ‘Delivery Attacks,’ And Why AI and ML Alone Won’t Stop Them
Why Fraudsters Like ‘Delivery Attacks,’ And Why AI and ML Alone Won’t Stop Them
May 19, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

The pandemic — and specifically, the lockdowns resulting from it — has spurred criminals to shift their cyber fraud schemes to exploit new avenues of...

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Digital Fraudsters Treat COVID As An Opportunity
Digital Fraudsters Treat COVID As An Opportunity
April 24, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

Incidences of account takeover (ATO) were up 347 percent and shipping fraud skyrocketed 391 percent, respectively, from 2018 to 2019, before anyone except virologists had...

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Securing The New Commerce Normal
Securing The New Commerce Normal
April 13, 2020  |  Fraud Prevention

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...

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Fraud: What Pandemic Panic Buying And Black Friday Have In Common
Fraud: What Pandemic Panic Buying And Black Friday Have In Common
March 27, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

These are unprecedented times — where the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered stores and brought tens of millions of people (in the U.S. alone) indoors, where...

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Kount Control Aims To Cut Account Takeover Fraud
Kount Control Aims To Cut Account Takeover Fraud
March 17, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

With a new solution announced Tuesday (March 17), identity trust and digital fraud protection firm Kount seeks to help people avoid the pitfalls and annoyances...

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How P.F. Chang’s Keeps Customer Data Under (Lettuce) Wraps
How P.F. Chang’s Keeps Customer Data Under (Lettuce) Wraps
February 24, 2020  |  Mobile Order Ahead

The mobile order-ahead market continues to expand its footprint, growing by 23 percent over the past four years and now accounting for more than 3.1...

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