Fraud

UN report: Deepfakes become part of organized crime’s industrial technology stack

2026-07-28 Ian Fleming

Hacker claims to have amassed ¥1 billion using AI deepfakes to scam Japanese firms

2026-07-26 Ian Fleming

FBI Warns of Deepfake Videos Impersonating the Leadership of its Own Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

2026-07-21 Ian Fleming

Ungoverned AI Agents and Sophisticated Deepfakes Pose Critical Threats for South African Organisations

2026-07-20 Per Henrikson

Global study reveals 64% of South African organisations already deploy autonomous AI agents with little to no governance, while 63% of employees admit they are unlikely to be able to spot attacks such as deepfakes

AI fraud fuels debate over continuous identity verification

2026-07-15 Ian Fleming

Congress heard calls for continuous identity verification to counter AI fraud, alongside warnings about creating systems capable of persistent surveillance.

The Rising Tide of AI-Enabled Social Engineering Scams: What Organizations Need to Know

2026-07-14 Ian Fleming

Organizations across industries are confronting a sharp escalation in AI-enabled social engineering scams — highly targeted campaigns that harness AI to craft convincing text, voice and video communications, fueling attacks that have surged in both volume and sophistication.

Rising fraud threats to push biometric identity checks to 70bn by 2030

2026-07-13 Per Henrikson

According Juniper Research, biometric verification checks are projected to rise from 32.2 billion in 2026 to 70.1 billion by 2030, representing a 117.6 per cent growth and making it the fastest-growing method of digital identity verification during the period.

Agentic AI Has an Identity Problem and Attackers Know It

2026-06-30 Ian Fleming

An agent behaves more like a human in that it can interpret a goal, choose a path, and act across systems. But it scales like software and processes at machine speed. It can be created quickly, embedded into SaaS products, copied by developers, delegated permissions by users, and left running long after the original need is gone.

UN report: Deepfakes become part of organized crime’s industrial technology stack

Hacker claims to have amassed ¥1 billion using AI deepfakes to scam Japanese firms

FBI Warns of Deepfake Videos Impersonating the Leadership of its Own Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

Ungoverned AI Agents and Sophisticated Deepfakes Pose Critical Threats for South African Organisations

AI fraud fuels debate over continuous identity verification

The Rising Tide of AI-Enabled Social Engineering Scams: What Organizations Need to Know

Rising fraud threats to push biometric identity checks to 70bn by 2030

Agentic AI Has an Identity Problem and Attackers Know It

12% of successful scams in 2025 used AI or deepfakes, according to poll of U.S. adults

'Deepfake as a service' sees 39% spike in dark web conversations

124 Million Unique Passwords Exposed In New Infostealer Log Dataset

Apple users are being targeted by a familiar tech support scam

Romania is emerging as one of the European Union’s earliest practical tests of eIDAS 2.0, the regulation that will place a digital identity wallet in the hands of every EU citizen who wants one.

Fourthline Trust Services Granted Status as Qualified Trust Service Provider in the EU

GBG launches Reach to verify AI agents' address data

New Colorado mobile ID accepted by TSA at DIA, other airports

Google Wallet for Android adds 11th digital state ID, first in 10 months