Since the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, went live in 2009, the crypto-craze has had a host of buzzwords to go along with it: HODL (hold on [to cryptocurrency] for dear life), FOMO (fear of missing out) and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), to name a few. But increasingly the word ‘scam’…

To anyone keeping up with cybersecurity threats, there is an understanding that anti-fraud systems are becoming ever more advanced. And they need to, for the threat from fraudsters is growing, partly down to the professionalisation of fraud, with the necessary tools easily obtainable through dark web marketplaces. Despite the tools…

Working in FinTech, we’ve come to realise that the no. of women in the industry, although increasing, is still quite low. Did you know that only 12% of senior positions are held by women in FinTech? At Nethone, women are involved in all parts of our business, from development of…

Nethone’s CEO Hubert Rachwalski was recently interviewed by Fintech commentator Marcel Van Oost about the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment schemes, which have taken Gen-Z and Millennials by storm. Marcel asks Hubert what the next big moves will be in BNPL in this intriguing Q&A session. Let’s get to it! How did you end up in the BNPL industry? We’ve…

Today everyone speaks about ML and its strengths, but the reality is that it needs the proper fuel to do all the promoted deeds of AI. The more raw data attributes you collect about the customer interaction with the website, their device, browser, you can feed more knowledge into your…

The latest technique that I’ve observed involves a combination of social engineering (classic technique) and gaining access to non-internet-savvy users’ PCs and using it to generate real identities with the expressed purpose of committing long term, multi-level fraud. For now, let’s call it “remote desktopping fraud” The most precious prize for fraudsters: access to a real but new-to-the-web identity

by Michał Barbaś, Intelligence Specialist and Anna Sternicka, Product Manager We are constantly studying online fraud in all its forms and we have published on Darknet topics in the past. This article is the product of a deeper-than-usual dive specifically into the Account Takeover (ATO) space, especially the current trends in tools and marketplaces for acquiring and selling stolen credentials. We took our findings from the ATO fraudster communities and compared them with our findings from a survey of our eCommerce and finance sector clients’ own experience with ATO.

by Karina Portugal, VP of Business Development Brazil | Nethone Brazil, a country of over 200 million people, has one of the highest internet usage penetration rates in the world. Now, along with Open Banking and PIX, a new set of regulations called LGPD is being rolled out in 2020…

by Joseph Cha If you sell physical or digital goods online, the time is now to prepare for the Cyber Monday influx of traffic. As everyone knows, it’s a time of increased business as well as increased fraud attempts and chargebacks. …