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Visa: AI Adds to the Cyberthreats Holiday Shoppers Will Face
For credit card giant Visa, the holiday season is always an extremely busy time. It not only brings out millions of people using plastic to pay for gifts, seasonal food, and decorations, ...
What you need to know about the Visa Compelling Evidence 3.0 update
Read our Q&A with Kevin Lee, VP of Trust and Safety at Sift, as he explains the new Visa compelling evidence updates and what it means for merchants. The post What you ...
Visa Sees Digital Payment Threats Evolving Post-Pandemic
Visa Inc. today published reports that indicated a sharp rise in fraud committed in person as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane. The past year saw a 176% increase in physical skimming ...
VISA Warns of POS Malware Campaigns in North America
Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) has warned of a malware campaign targeting point-of-sale (POS) terminals, as cybercriminals have a clear strategy to steal card data. Credit card data sells at a premium ...
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Makes PINs Useless for VISA Cards
EMV protocol is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack All VISA credit cards are affected VISA has to issue update for POS terminals Swiss security researchers have discovered a way to bypass the ...
Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping ...
Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing
Most of the civilized world years ago shifted to requiring computer chips in payment cards that make it far more expensive and difficult for thieves to clone and use them for fraud ...
Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards
In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers ...
Visa Warns of Point-of-Sale Attacks from FIN8 Hackers
Criminal hacking group FIN8, known for a flurry of attacks in 2017 followed by a period of silence in 2018 until re-emerging earlier this year, has recently carried out three attacks against ...
Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world's largest financial institutions ...
