This guest blog post from a Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional discusses a case study involving a social engineering attack against an airline, as well as discusses methods for deception and intrusion with spear phishing attacks related to social engineering and fraudsters ultimately attempting to reverse engineer an organization’s risk management policies and practices. Read More
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all Set New Record Highs
Desktop and mobile eCommerce sales reached a combined $14.5 billion across Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, while CNP channel sales on each day increased by at least 17 percent year-over-year. The nearly $6.6 billion in eCommerce sales on Cyber Monday set a new record for the largest online shopping day in North America, as
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Alibaba Exceeds $25 Billion in Purchase Volume on Single’s Day with 90 Percent of Revenue Made in Mobile Channel
Alibaba shattered previous sales records on Single’s Day in China, the largest global online shopping day of the year, reaching $25.3 billion in purchase volume across their Taobao and TMall platforms on November 11, 2017. Alibaba’s sales on this one day exceed the total volume of online sales in the United States from Thanksgiving through
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Visa Canada Requires CVV on All eCommerce Transactions While Providing Merchants New Liability Shift
Visa Canada published a document titled The Future of Payment Security in Canada, detailing several new requirements related to ensuring security with Visa card transactions, including several new rules and deadlines coming into effect over the next few years. Notably, issuers must eliminate the use of static passwords with Verified by Visa by April 2018,
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Google and Walmart’s New Partnership Will Help Both Battle eCommerce Behemoth Amazon
Google and Walmart announced a partnership that will bring hundreds of thousands of items sold by Walmart onto the Google Express online shopping service so they can also be purchased by voice request using Google Home, much how Amazon Prime members can order with voice commands to Alexa on Amazon’s Echo or Dot. Walmart will
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Vantiv Eyes Global Expansion, Acquires WorldPay for Nearly $10 Billion
Vantiv, the largest acquirer in the U.S. based on transaction processing volume, is now a significant global competitor as well, following the $9.9 billion dollar acquisition of UK-based WorldPay, who has over 400,000 processing clients across 146 countries. It was announced on July 5th that Vantiv would acquire global processor WorldPay for $9.9 (£7.7) billion
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eCommerce and Mobile Banking Fraud Lead 2016 Fraud Increase in the UK
Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK, a financial services industry research and reporting group, recently released their 2016 year-end payment card and banking fraud totals which showed an increase in card fraud overall, primarily led by card not present channel fraud. Changing trends include an increase in fraud attempts but targeting lower order amounts compared to
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Amazon Debuts Cash-based Alternative Payment Method
Amazon Cash is the latest payment method and feature supported by Amazon and was designed for the under- and unbanked. Consumers can request a barcode that is linked to their Amazon account, and when checking-out at a partner retail store location the customer can add between $15 and $500, using cash, which will become stored
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Wal-Mart Makes Another Major eCommerce Move in Uphill Battle Against Amazon
Amazon has a stronghold as the largest eCommerce merchant in the United States, comprising as much as 43 percent of all U.S. online retail purchases in 2016. Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the U.S., is one of the largest U.S. online retailers as well, but with online volumes less than one-fourth that of Amazon.
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Alibaba Spin Off to Acquire MoneyGram for $880 Million
Ant Financial Services Group, the Alibaba Group affiliate formerly known as Alipay, announced the acquisition of major money remittance company Money Gram for $880 million. While already the online payments leader in China, this acquisition would greatly increase Ant’s international and U.S. presence, with the acquisition expected to close in the second half of the
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