Fraud Prevention
Authorized Push Payment Scams: When the Victim Sends the Money Themselves
In APP fraud, victims are manipulated into sending money to criminals. The main scam patterns, why banks struggle, and reimbursement rules.
Emerging Threats & Trends
BNPL Under Attack: Fraud and Security Risks in Buy Now, Pay Later
Buy Now, Pay Later shifts fraud risk in unfamiliar ways — synthetic identities, ATO, never-pay schemes. The risks for providers and merchants.
Data Breaches & Incident Response
How Stolen Card Data Is Sold — and How Merchants Use Dark Web Monitoring
Stolen card data moves through carding shops and encrypted channels within days of a breach. How the market works and how monitoring…
Fraud Prevention
Measuring Fraud Prevention: The KPIs That Show Whether Your Program Works
Fraud rate alone hides more than it reveals. The KPIs — false positive rate, approval rate, chargeback rate — that show real…
Fraud Prevention
Refund Fraud and Policy Abuse: The Post-Purchase Fraud Merchants Underestimate
Refund fraud and returns policy abuse quietly drain e-commerce margins. Learn the main schemes and layered defenses that don't punish good customers.
Fraud Prevention
How Machine Learning Detects Payment Fraud in Real Time
Rule-based fraud systems can't keep up with adaptive criminals. Learn how machine learning models score transactions in milliseconds and where they still…
Emerging Threats & Trends
AI-Powered Card Testing Attacks: Why Small Charges Signal Big Trouble
Fraudsters now use automation and AI to validate stolen card numbers at scale. Learn how modern card testing works and how to…
Fraud Prevention
Card-Not-Present Fraud: Why It Keeps Rising and How to Fight Back
As chip cards pushed fraud online, card-not-present fraud became the dominant threat for e-commerce. Here is why it grew and the layered…