As cyberthreats proliferate, Attack Surface Management is becoming a vital strategy in simulating attackers’ tactics and pinpointing vulnerabilities on an organisation’s attack surface. In this article, Kieran Hernon, Vice President, EMEA Sales,...

Zimperium, the mobile-first security platform for mobile devices and mobile apps, has released its annual Mobile Banking Heist report, which highlights the continued evolution and success of mobile banking trojans around the globe.   In particular, the r...

With the accumulation of security, fraud, and identity solutions, financial institutions find themselves entangled in a complex array of tools. Phil Allen, VP, EMEA, at Transmit Security, explains how this intricacy obstructs threat response, leads to...

In the last twelve months, merchants have seen a huge leap in online payment fraud (up 59%), account takeover (up 51%), promotion abuse (up 52%), refund abuse (up 53%) and customer fraud / friendly fraud (up 40%).  Merchants are now throwing more and...

Financial fraud has increased substantially as the trend towards mobile banking and digitisation accelerates. In 2022 alone, the US Federal Trade Commission received over 1.1 million reports of identity theft and over 440,000 reports of credit card fraud. To...

Beosin, a blockchain security company, and HashKey Group, a virtual asset financial services organisation, have entered a strategic partnership. Both firms will cooperate closely in various areas of virtual assets including ecosystem security, anti-money...

Facctum has announced that FacctView – a new screening platform – has been chosen by NTT Data Payment Services to expand its anti-financial crime defences. This new technology will support NTT Data Payments Services’ e-commerce platforms by detecting and a...

Strong cybersecurity is the backbone of every organisation. Check Point Software agrees, outlining the three C’s methodology below and why should they be central to an organisation’s strategy moving forward. Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to exp...

Trellix has released its latest report, The Mind of the CISO. The research is the result of a survey of global Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across every major industry and reveals how they work amidst a tumultuous threat landscape, which...

New cybersecurity measures will increase the UK’s cyber-resilience and protect the UK Government’s essential IT functions from ever-growing threats. Under the new rules, all central government departments will have their cyber-health reviewed annually through new...

Skyhigh Security has released The Data Dilemma: Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, focusing on the prevailing problem of how to protect data that is used, shared and stored in today’s hybrid and cloud-first enterprise environments. The report finds that, on ave...

Online businesses are being hit by a damaging double-whammy of fraud as the cost-of-living crisis bites.  A survey of chief financial officers (CFOs) at online merchants across 10 countries, commissioned by Ravelin, has found that fraud is on the...