Category Archives: anti-fraud

New Research Reveals: Phishers Launch a New Attack Every 30 Seconds

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As long as users can be fooled, phishing will continue to proliferate.  In fact, many major breaches start as a targeted phishing email.  According to the latest statistics from RSA FraudAction researchers, more than one million unique attacks have been identified in the last 12 months, or, more simply put, a new phishing attack is launched every 30…

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Six Steps For Cybercrime Survival

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While recently cleaning my grandfather’s attic, I came across an old Federal Civil Defense Administration brochure titled “Six Steps to Survival – If an enemy attacked today would you know what to do?”  In our modern times, many of us are being attacked on a daily basis by cybercriminals. As such, do you know what…

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The Role of Money Mules in New Multi-Million Dollar Scams

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I have written previously about CEO fraud where employees receive an email which appears to come from a company executive directing them to erroneously wire money to an overseas bank account. Now, fraudsters are redirecting their efforts to a new internal target: accounts payable. According to IBAN, the scam works this way: The fraudsters intercept emails or compromise…

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The Most Important Visitor On Our Premises

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor…

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Best Advice for Digital Citizens – Stop. Think. Connect.™

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October is kind of a big deal here at RSA. It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) and it gives us an opportunity to bring to the general public’s attention to a critical mission that we are focused on all year long – keeping businesses and individuals safe from cybercrime. It’s unfortunate that cybercrime is impactful…

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POS Malware and Other Hacks Plague the Hospitality Industry

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The days of making “analog accommodations” at hotels — filling out a reservation slip, taking ownership of a door key and having only a telephone handset to communicate with the outside world— are long over. Today’s hotels are rife with digital trapdoors, metaphorical sinkholes that have the capacity to compromise your personal information and identity.…

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The Era of Proportional Ransomware Has Arrived

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According to the FBI the incursion of ransomware has just gone from bad to worse. In a recent alert, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that recent ransomware variants have targeted and compromised vulnerable business servers to identify and target hosts, thereby multiplying the number of potential infected servers and devices on a network. More…

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Credential Checking Services Soar in Popularity on Dark Web

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If you’ve ever needed another reason to not recycle your passwords, I give you Sentry MBA. Although the tool has been around for a couple of years, it has recently been soaring in popularity among those in the fraud community which is no surprise with more than 1.5 billion consumer credentials breached so far this year. The…

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The Value of Transaction Risk Analysis for Consumer Authentication

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The recent consultation paper set forth by the European Banking Association (EBA) surrounding the call for comments on the regulatory technical requirements for strong customer authentication under PSD2 has created a buzz.  In particular, while the EBA recognizes the “merit” of transaction risk analysis, it has called into question the ability to allow it “as…

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The Perils of Consumer Single Sign-On

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From social media to gaming sites, every headline of a new breach makes me groan, “Time to change my password.”  It’s a begrudging task, but I still have not been pwned.  Aside from the risks associated with the common problem of password recycling among consumers, there are far too many online websites that enable consumers…

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