The Advantages of Threat Intelligence for Combating Fraud
Leveraging threat intelligence to combat nation state espionage threats is a common practice for cybersecurity teams. However, outside of common types of fraud seen in darkweb or closed forums, the same threat intelligence often is not leveraged to combat enterprise fraud. If you are a target of APT threats by espionage actors, buying access to…
E-Commerce Skimming is the New POS Malware
As the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear, the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating an ongoing trend: shoppers are opting to buy online. Rather than flooding brick-and-mortar stores — and point-of-sale (POS) machines — with sales, studies suggest a high percentage of shoppers in 2020 will be using online options and e-commerce checkout pages. And,…
eCommerce credit card fraud is nearly an inevitability
Riskified surveyed 5,000 US-based consumers aged 18 and older about their online shopping behaviors, experience with and prevalence of credit card fraud, repeat shopping likelihood and customer satisfaction to develop a full picture of how consumers react to a number of common shopping experiences. The results are worrisome for both consumers and merchants, as roughly…
Consumers would stop engaging with a brand online following a breach
Ping Identity surveyed more than 3,000 people across the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany to find out what they expect from brands when it comes to the safekeeping of personal information. The survey reveals many consumers are making drastic changes to the ways they interact with companies and secure their own personal data…
Tips to shop safely on Cyber Monday
As consumers gear up for Cyber Monday, the largest online shopping day of the year, cybercriminals are also preparing to take advantage of deal-seekers. IBM X-Force researchers are monitoring malicious activity closely to help organizations and consumers stay safe during the holiday shopping season. Researchers have already seen cybercriminals actively masking malicious malware in emails…