Apple App Store Hack – Reflections on Trusting Trust
Apple’s app review process is excellent at preventing malware from infiltrating their store, but last week proved even the best security practices can be overcome by inventive fraudsters.
Fraud Detection with Advanced Outlier Detection Algorithms
Online fraud costs the global economy more than $400 billion, with more than 800 million personal records stolen in 2013 alone. Increasingly, fraud has diversified to different digital channels,
Newest Whatsapp Threat – Social Engineering Leveraging Trusted Brands
Earlier this week, researchers from Checkpoint software disclosed a vulnerability in What’sApp, that let hackers compromise personal data using just their phone number.While What’sApp quickly responded to that vulnerability,
Massive Phishing Email Campaign Affecting Major Bank Detected by DMARC Compass
For a while now, we have been talking about the importance of businesses taking back control of their email channel, to minimize the impact of phishing attacks against their brand and end-users. Since its inception, DMARC Compass®
OPM Breach Notifications Change Course – It’s Time to Rethink Identity
A few months ago, when the OPM breach first hit, and the OPM said it would leverage a third-party to send out notification emails to affected individuals about the compromise, we warned of the dangers of this approach.
CEO Fraud Up 270% to $1.2B – Here’s How It Almost Happened to Us
Earlier this month, we published a post on how scammers tried to impersonate our CEO’s email, to convince our CFO to make fraudulent payments to a compromised account. Now, the FBI has released updated statistics, showing that we are definitely not alone. As Krebs on Security reports:
Hello! Let Me Introduce Myself
As one of the newest employees at Easy Solutions, I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am joining the Company as a Data Scientist. Before becoming part of Easy Solutions, I spent my time working at SIX Financial Services
Why Dormant Financial Account Fraud Goes Undetected
One of the most worrying kinds of fraud that financial institutions face today is related to dormant accounts. As background, accounts are classified as dormant when there is no financial activity
Facing Reality – The Rise of Cyber Fraud in Europe
Although it is difficult to calculate the exact amount of money lost to cyber fraud each year, it is clear that European cyber fraud is on the rise. European card fraud losses increased over 6%
The Day My Email Got Spoofed – And How DMARC Can Help
Being at the forefront of fraud prevention, our level of awareness for fraud related schemes is definitively higher than it is for any other business. We live to fight back fraud 24 by 7, and being one of the pioneers in the industry to champion DMARC and knowing its benefits, we decided to deploy the …