On August 10, 2018, the FBI warned financial institutions of a global ATM cash-out scheme they believed would occur within the next few days. Despite this advanced warning and additional details shared—the cybercriminals were able to launch a seven-hour attack on August 11, cashing out $11.5 [...]
Startups remain a key resource for CIOs seeking an innovative edge. From AI to data analytics to cybersecurity, here are 10 startups looking to fulfill IT leaders’ most pressing digital [...]
As financial fraud in the UK evolves, so too does the financial industry, stepping up its efforts to tackle the issue with new technologies, such as biometrics and artificial intelligence. [...]
In the last decade, most of us have experienced first-hand how digital technology has disrupted retail banking. In Europe alone 58.5% of customer bank online and increasingly fewer people see the branch as their main source of banking services. For most of us our bank is inside our [...]
Where AI is making a real difference is in catching criminals. Globally, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that 2-5% of global GDP, or $800 billion to $2 trillion, is laundered annually. Money laundering is closely tied to other serious offenses such as terror financing, [...]
The anti-fraud sector remains a hotbed of risk management activity. As criminals become ever more technically proficient, Financial Institutions (FIs) find themselves in a constant ‘arms race’, attempting to stay one step ahead. In recent years, the main theme in anti-fraud has been diversity. [...]
The private market ecosystem in Israel has been maturing rapidly over the past few years, underscored by several big deals and the emergence of a technology cluster in the area around Tel Aviv known as Silicon [...]
Singapore has become a hothouse for the fintech and banking debate, but can its banks meet the challenge? [...]
Following a recent warning from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that banks were facing the possibility of an imminent global cyberattack targeting ATMs, banks are being urged to review the operating systems used to run the machines and the security measures in place to detect and [...]
Anomaly detection can be termed as a process to identify anomalies such as an unusual shift in the process or event in an operation that does not follow the expected pattern or dataset. These shift in the usual pattern of the event is the major cause of a fault, [...]
The World’s Largest Banks are Spending More Than Ever to Tackle Money Laundering, with AI Technology Increasingly at the Forefront of the [...]
Bank Info Security interviews ThetaRay EVP James Heinzman on the role of machine learning in fighting [...]
Unsupervised machine learning is essential to mitigate the sophisticated cross-channel fraud techniques attackers are using to take advantage of the multiple silos and security gaps at financial institutions, says ThetaRay’s James [...]
More recently hackers have been attacking ATMs remotely through malware injected into a cash-machine network. They also access debit card account data, temporarily raise the balances on the accounts, withdraw the difference with the use of counterfeit cards, and then reinstate the original [...]
According to a report by Javelin Strategies, U.S. residents lost $16.8 billion to fraudsters in 2017, and the number of victims increased 8 percent over the previous year. Unfortunately, identity thieves are getting smarter, which means that consumers have to be even more vigilant when it comes to [...]
“A combination of malware, ATM jackpotting, money mules, money laundering, e-payment and crypto currency fraud – all performed by organized crime groups – presents a daunting task for financial crime prevention units,” said ThetaRay CEO Mark Gazit, via email. “For many years, we have been [...]
ThetaRay’s analytics platform enables clients to detect anomalous behavior across a large data set of transactions. Once an anomaly is detected, the bank can migrate the transaction to protect against [...]
One of the largest banks in Florida and the largest Chilean-owned bank in the U.S. said this week it is beginning to use artificial intelligence software to detect financial [...]
ThetaRay, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help financial institutions, cybersecurity divisions, and critical infrastructure “become more resilient” to threats like risk management, money laundering schemes, fraud, and operational issues, has closed a $30 million in a funding [...]
Investment activity in the fraud prevention space was light in July, with the exception of a $30 million Series B funding round by Israel-based ThetaRay at the beginning of the month. Investors in the round included Jerusalem Venture Partners, GE, Bank Hapoalim and OurCrowd, bringing total [...]