Follow the Money, and Go for the Mules!
Last weekend the media was exploding with reports about massive arrests of cybercriminals, all part of global Zeus Trojan scams, targeting banking users in the US and the UK. We figured there’s no...
View ArticleUnderground Ripples
The international law enforcement operation known as Trident is starting to have ripple effects in the fraud underground. Like the Darknet operation in October 2008, it is certainly a milestone in the...
View ArticleStopping The Next Money Mule: How Banks Can Identify Mule Accounts as They...
It’s impossible to talk about the world of fraud without mentioning mules. When it comes to infrastructure, mules are just as important – if not more important – than having a botnet or a phishing...
View ArticleOut of Band Authentication: How Fraudsters Circumvent Sophisticated Security...
In “The Matrix,” Morpheus tells Neo during training that some of the Matrix’s rules can be bent while others can be broken. While this line may only be an excuse to use clever special effects, it does...
View ArticleNo Holding Pattern for Airline Fraud
In my summer post about travel deals, I talked a bit about fraud in the “last minute” type of travel. But when you take a step back, you discover quite a lot of fraud in the general airline sector, and...
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