Digital fraud is as old as the internet itself, and bad actors continuously develop new techniques while refining old ones. Fraudsters can deploy old-fashioned confidence schemes on a far greater scale than they can in person, with fraudsters leveraging social engineering and phishing schemes to...
Mobile ordering has taken off over the past year as restaurants have been forced to shut their doors and later limit their capacities, yet the fast, widespread distribution of vaccines in the U.S. over the past several months has led many states to relax or...
Bad actors leverage a bewildering variety of schemes, including ATOs, credential stuffing and phishing, against merchants. What all of these attack vectors have in common is that they rely on stolen customer data like email addresses, passwords or Social Security numbers, with fraudsters using these...
Account takeovers and credential stuffing attacks are surging, with fraudsters buying stolen credentials from the dark web to target first-time digital consumers. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker, Slice's Jason Ordway discusses its two-pronged approach for keeping orders secure for its 15,000 pizzerias across the...
May 12, 2021
Phishing, account takeovers (ATOs) and other types of fraud are endemic in the retail industry, especially as more merchants migrate online during the pandemic, and fraudsters now have more resources than ever with which to conduct their attacks. A study found that there are more than 15 billion consumer credentials circulating on the dark web, […]
February 24, 2020
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 billion restaurant visits and $26.8...
April 24, 2019
The news out of Chipotle feels a bit like déjà vu, as it’s a story we’ve all heard before. Reports have appeared all over social media, particularly via Reddit and...
November 15, 2023
A 19-year-old man from Madison, Wisconsin, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Joseph Garrison, along with his co-conspirators, orchestrated a scheme to hack user accounts at a fantasy sports and betting website, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York said in a Wednesday (Nov. 15) press release. Their motive was to gain unauthorized […]
December 20, 2019
To add protection from targeted fraud, automated attacks and botnets to its portfolio of application services, F5 will acquire fraud and abuse prevention company Shape Security. The two companies announced a...
April 19, 2019
Chipotle Mexican Grill has been the victim of a cyberattack that compromised the credit card payment information for a small number of customers. Many customers have recently posted on social...
February 12, 2019
Dunkin’ revealed Tuesday (February 12) that hackers were able to get access to customer information via a credential stuffing attack. According to a report in ZDNet, credential stuffing occurs when hackers...
