Online Fraud Blog

Cryptojacking and ransomware: Cyberthreat scenarios for 2019

buguroo
22.07.2019
malware

Banks and other organizations within the finance industry are bound to encounter new data security threats throughout 2019. From nation state-directed strikes to ...

Behavioral biometrics in mobile banking applications

buguroo
17.07.2019
behavioral biometrics

Fraud is an immense problem for organizations navigating the digital age. Cybercriminals everywhere are targeting businesses across all sectors, leveraging account ...

Essential online banking threat trends for 2019

buguroo
08.07.2019
malware

Financial institutions worldwide suffered numerous cyberattacks in 2018. For instance, cybercriminals targeted seven of the largest European banks in April, including ...

Brazilian Trojan Guildma reaches Spain

buguroo
01.07.2019
malware

In mid-May we detected a new Guildma campaign that affected banks in Spain, as well as different countries in Latin America and Portugal. Recently, we have continued to ...

Modus Operandi and Cyberprofiling

buguroo
11.06.2019
Cybersecurity

Criminal profiling is a psychology-based technique in which, on the basis of an analysis of the behavior engaged in by offenders at the time of their crime, an attempt ...

Hyperparameter optimization

Ferran Pla
03.06.2019
deep learning

In Machine Learning, many parameters are assessed and improved via the learning process. By contrast, a hyperparameter is a variable whose value is set before training; ...

Open Banking and PSD2 in 4 steps

buguroo
20.05.2019
PSD2

PSD2 catalyzes an open banking revolution. Discover in 4 steps the news of the European directive.

Understanding the impact of PSD2

buguroo
17.05.2019
PSD2

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) dominated enterprise information technology headlines throughout 2018, as organizations worldwide grappled ...

Insider profiles II. Features

Jorge Jiménez
14.05.2019
Cybersecurity

As a follow-up to the previous post, where we described the existing typologies of insiders, we are now going to delve deeper into a more psychological profiling of ...

Bankbot: Evolution to Date

buguroo
10.04.2019
malware

Nowadays, more and more people use their mobile devices to carry out their everyday tasks, such as managing their bank accounts, which has resulted in an upward trend in ...