Phishing

Crooks are going after automated tax communications, text and streaming video. Here's what payment companies should do to educate their consumers, according to Robert Fodor, chief data scientist and vice president of fraud for Interac.

The days of odd emails are gone. Phishing has become a complex big business for crooks, according to Rafael Lourenco, an executive vice president at ClearSale.

Today phishing scams have become so elaborate that they can take a variety of forms, including a phony job interview.

Midsize banks have much smaller security budgets, less mature security programs and less robust controls than their bigger counterparts, writes Leigh-Anne Galloway, cybersecurity resilience lead at Positive Technologies.

Hackers pretending to screen a Chilean ATM network staffer for a new job instead slipped malware onto his work computer, leading to a broader attack.

CBTX said an unauthorized person obtained personal information for about 7,800 customers.

Web attacks spike around the holidays, creating a higher risk for malware, phishing and other crime, according to Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security, a Mastercard company.

Rich Baich, Wells Fargo's security chief and newly appointed security advisor to the White House, shares attack types he’s worried about and top defenses.

Phishing is a serious and growing problem in the financial services and payments industries, creating pressure to come up with advanced detection techniques, according to Adrien Gendre, chief solutions architect for Vade Secure.

The continued trend of “spear phishing” and “catfishing” only serves to highlight the complex work required to identify genuine from fraudulent, writes Steven Goddard, product manager for risk at The ai Corporation (ai).