There is a proliferation of individuals who abuse chargebacks, promotions, returns or merchant and financial services firms’ policies to get free merchandise or payouts, often in plain sight. This so-called first-party fraud — thus named because fraudsters often use their own identities rather than concealing...
Restaurants are diving head first into digital innovations, such as mobile ordering and rewards programs. These merchants have always been vulnerable to in-person fraud, including coupon or promotion scams, but digital channels create new avenues that bad actors can exploit. Security standards have largely not...
April 02, 2024
Edge cloud platform Fastly has launched a tool to help companies combat bot attacks. Fastly Bot Management is designed to help clients prevent fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, account takeovers and other online abuse, according to a Tuesday (April 2) news release. “Every day, bad actors, including bot operators, are looking to disrupt and fraudulently […]
