Payment fraud

Fending off these kinds of attacks requires training personnel on a strict process for validating suppliers' banking data during supplier onboarding, especially when receiving any data change requests, says Noicepay's Doug Seaberg.

New messaging protocols calls can meet crooks at the pass, says FIME's Jean Fang.

New regulations and fraud threats are accumulating, and payment firms need to keep up, says Semafone's Gary E. Barnett.

It can be hard to spot insider fraud, duplicate invoices and service glitches by hand, says AppZen's Anant Kale.

Despite advances in anti-fraud technology, scams remain a major problem for the energy industry, as criminals continue to exploit vulnerabilities present within the current system.

Square has buttressed its deep-learning with the purchase of Dessa, a Toronto-based machine learning startup that specializes in advanced risk management.

Relying on a "community-based" fraud approach can reduce friction and abandonment, increase sales and revenue, delight your customers, and help protect your brand and reputation, says Accertify's Jeff Wixted.

By pooling fraud data and making it accessible in real time, FIs can scan check deposits to identify fraudulent checks before a loss occurs, says Advanced Fraud Solutions' Ted Kirk.

Instead of a live caller engaging in social engineering with a single prospective target, automatic dialers call thousands of people, instructing them to call bogus telephone numbers purported to belong to the IRS, Social Security Administration, or their bank, says The Santa Fe Group's Bob Jones

The shift from person-to-person deposits to digital options – including mobile, ATMs and RDC – has created new challenges to fraud prevention efforts.

Magecart attackers steal credit card or bank data directly from the checkout pages on e-commerce websites and resell them on the dark web, says PerimiterX's Ameet Naik.

It seems the payments industry is once again pushing liability to the merchants with no plans to hold anyone else along the payments ecosystem accountable for ensuring that viable solutions are available, says the Merchant Advisory Group's John Drechny.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features and more time-saving capabilities.

For banks and other financial institutions to survive and thrive in the age of mobile payments and e-commerce, they need to continue to enhance their mobile apps with more innovations, tighter security features, and more time-saving capabilities, says Informa Financial Intelligence's Gina DeCorla.

The concept can enable chargeback abuse, and if this “blind-eye” approach continues to dominate, the bad behavior will only get worse, says Chargeback 911's Monica Eaton-Cardone.

After a decline, fraud has recently spiked. But there are measures companies can take to stay ahead of the crooks, says Nvoicepay's Alyssa Callahan.

New smartphones have subtle differences that require more complex security solutions, says Fingerprints' Ted Hansson.

Criminals will react to the EU legislation by changing their modus operandi, says Nets' Sune Gabelgard.

The ransomware attack chain uses a number of methods to infect an organization's systems, which can easily bypass an entire organizational security framework in seconds, according to Exabeam's Richard Cassidy

Sophisticated attacks will show lower volume in many cases but attempt to emulate user behavior, says NuData Security’s Robert Capps.