Financial-services firms, and fintechs particularly, have been swamped with account-takeover attacks over the past year, leaving many consumers wary of visiting these sites, according to a report issued Thursday by Sift Science Inc. Indeed, the volume of account-takeover attacks overall more than tripled between the second quarter of 2019 and …

While account takeover is a major concern for financial institutions and merchants, many underestimate the cost as well as the frequency of attacks, says a report released Thursday by Arkose Labs, a San Francisco-based provider of fraud-prevention technology. Indeed, one of the costliest aspects of account takeovers is the loss of …

Account takeover fraud has been a challenge for e-commerce merchants since business online. But recent years have proven exactly how pervasive ATO is across every industry, and revealed that it’s the average fraudster’s weapon of choice. Between the second quarter of 2019 and Q2 2020, overall ATO rates (the percentage …

Losses from identity fraud grew 13% in 2019 to $16.9 billion even though instances of ID fraud fell nearly 10%, according to the newly released 2020 Identity Fraud Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. The study also found that person-to-person payments fraud increased 733% from 2016 to 2019. Based on …

Credit, debit, and prepaid card fraud shows no signs of retreat, finds the Sixth Annual Fraud Report from IDology, an Atlanta-based identity-verification company. Sixty-seven percent of executive respondents to an IDology survey said card-based fraud is most prevalent among their industries. That compares to 65% in 2017. Other fraud types …

Merchants selling digital goods were dealt a heavy blow last year as the fraud rate for the category soared 167%, finds the Fraud Attack Index from online-fraud prevention specialist Forter and the Merchant Risk Council, a merchant group that addresses fraud prevention. Released Tuesday, the index also found that account …

Consumers may not realize it, but their mobile phone is a gateway for criminals to take over their bank accounts. In a fast-growing scam known as SIM swapping, criminals transfer the phone number associated with a consumer’s mobile phone to the SIM card embedded in a mobile phone in their …

By Adam Elliott This insidious fraud is on the rise, but some due diligence in checking phone-number changes can do much to combat it, says Adam Elliott. A bank customer using an online banking portal requests a large wire transfer. The bank is suspicious, so it contacts the customer using …