A new report by Signicat, the European digital identity and fraud prevention solutions provider, reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) is used in over a third of fraud attempts targeting financial institutions, with one in fifteen fraud attempts now using deepfakes. The study, titled “The Battle against AI-driven Identity Fraud,” found that 42.5% of detected fraud […]
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HFT giant Virtu has been the target of an apparent clone scam, using its likeness to attract possible investors. The company is threatening legal action and has already approached the authorities about the matter. The promotional matrial for the “coin” in question, Virt, is so bizarre it almost looks like a parody of the current […]
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Many of the major cryptocurrency exchanges have announced that a massive influx of new traders in late 2017 caused them to be overwhelmed, leading to degraded services or forcing them to close their doors to new clients. Much of the problem was the need to ensure compliance with complex KYC/AML regulations, which the companies struggled […]
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One would have hoped that by now investors in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) would have learned to be more careful who they trust with their money, but the spate of new scams that are reported every week shows this has yet to happen. The latest group to fall for an ICO fraud are Seele investors. Also […]
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