Nearly 40% of Gen Z report fraud losses as scams shift online: TransUnion
Gen Z is increasingly being targeted by online scammers: Nearly 40 percent of Gen Z consumers reported losing money to…
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Synthetic identity fraud soared 8X in 2025: LexisNexis
Theft using synthetic identities now accounts for 11 percent of all reported fraud, making it the fastest-growing fraud type worldwide,…
Accurate launches enhanced IDV to stem candidate fraud
It’s important to hire the right people, but with bad actors out there acting fraudulently, this is getting harder. More…
Socure’s Deepanker Saxena breaks down how to spot fake job candidates
Deepanker Saxena, Socure’s head of product, is real. In the age of AI-assisted fraud, that makes him a model employee….
One fifth of ID theft victims will have their identity reused: Synectics
More than 20 percent of ID theft victims have their identity reused to access different financial services and products, according…
Identity fraud makes up over half of record UK incidents in 2025: Cifas
The UK is seeing more than 1,200 fraud cases each day, with more than half of them linked to identity…
UK Fraud Strategy considers business digital identity and IDV
In a new fraud strategy, the UK government is showing its commitment in fighting fraud and the way it has…
Deepfakes can duck dated detection tools, need new layers of protection
A sinister impostor sits in the trusted circle, biding his time. With luck, he will quietly waddle his way into…
Github reveals how North Korean hackers create synthetic identities to infiltrate businesses
North Korean state-backed hackers are systematically building fake personas to infiltrate companies as contractors and employees, in some cases relying…
OCR updates ID document authentication toolkit, targets online age verification
The rise of identity document fraud is prompting companies such as OCR Studio to develop new solutions, while issues such…
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