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Money Mules: The Critical Cash Out Service in the Fraud Supply Chain
While we might associate a mule with the stubborn, four-legged animal, in the world of cybercrime, it has a much different connotation. Mules can come in the forms of both accounts or people and are critical parts of the fraud supply chain. You can have mule accounts which are used to move stolen funds, or...
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The Role of Money Mules in New Multi-Million Dollar Scams
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...
Fraud Effects of Real-Time Digital Banking Payments: Is Your Bank Ready?
When was the last time you read a news article about an ‘old school’ brick and mortar bank robbery? Or perhaps even seen a new Hollywood movie about a gang of bank robbers? I suspect the answer is……you haven’t. Online banking has facilitated a revolution in how we do our banking, with mobile pushing it even further in recent...
New Account Fraud: How to Apply Fraud Data to Reduce Risk
Data analysis shows new accounts and new devices are red flags for fraud.
Identifying Fraud Faster with Intelligence Feeds - Web Threat Detection v6
Online fraud remains as much a part of digital life as URLs. Fraudsters are constantly devising new ways to separate consumers from their money, login credentials, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), healthcare data and anything else that can be monetized. Even more, they are doing it with speed and sophistication, but most damaging, they do it...
Find Friends and Credit Cards on Facebook: The New Cybercrime Reality
Social media attracts all kinds. These sites are used for catching up with friends on Facebook, instant news dissemination on Twitter, partisan political viewpoints expressed in online forums, real-time reach outs on Snapchat, professional networking on LinkedIn — and now, not surprisingly, they’re used as global havens for cybercrime. With the release of the...
Pandemic Fuels Cybercrime: 8 Scams to Watch For
Fraudsters are exploiting the worldwide pandemic with phishing and fraud schemes.
How the pandemic is changing cybercrime
RSA Fraud report highlights how the pandemic is changing cybercrime
The Financial Fraud Effect of Real-Time Payments
Several weeks ago, I published an article which provided a summary of the Australian Payments Council’s Australian Payments Plan. This plan is designed as a strategic roadmap for the future of Australian payments, specifically the initiative around the New Payments Platform, or NPP. In short, the NPP is going to introduce the ability to send funds in real-time via...
In the Wake of Recent Breach It’s Time to Revisit Your Fraud Strategy
Time to immediately revisit your fraud strategy in wake of recent mega breach
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