Detecting virtual bad actors means paying more careful attention to the digital interactions and touch points within your business, and how users interact with you through apps, websites or customer service centers, writes Accertify's Andrew Mortland.

MFA stops broad attacks, but more targeted hacks can still get through, says KnowBe4's Roger Grimes.

Cybercriminals have become extremely adept at crafting emails that are indistinguishable from legitimate emails, says Valimail's Peter Goldstein.

A digital currency firm has been accused of recruiting actors to pretend to be Comerica and Mastercard employees, writing a fake prospectus and taking other steps to make it look like the two U.S. companies were its partners in an investment venture.

If time seems to move faster when a payments compliance deadline is looming, then owners of gas station/convenience stores in the U.S. will feel like October of 2020 will be upon them in no time.

Though synthetic identity fraud is down across the industry, there's been an uptick in such attacks targeting credit unions.

Companies should push advanced ID, but passwords and their fallout will be here for a while, says Sift's Kevin Lee.

Balances for accounts suspected of synthetic fraud inched up about 1% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to TransUnion.

None of the 10 financial institutions in the Bank of Thailand's electronic know your customer verification test have completed the trial, raising a red flag for the myriad biometric risk projects underway.

NatWest is expanding its test of cards that use biometric fingerprints to authorize transactions, citing expanded use cases for contactless payments in the U.K.