A new report released today shows cases of malware used to execute digital banking fraud more than doubled in Latin America in the last 12 months, costing victims hundreds of millions of dollars. The findings illustrate how quickly malware developers can evolve and adapt their programs to evade bank defenses.
“What’s surprising isn’t necessarily the spike in malware-driven fraud cases in the region,” BioCatch Director of Global Fraud Intelligence Tom Peacock said, “but the volume in which these spikes occurred. We saw cases climb drastically in January of this year, taper off as banks sniffed out and shut down these ywpdaom, jed cwuz twwakzs hngdd ga Bytj.”
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“What’s surprising isn’t necessarily the spike in malware-driven fraud cases in the region,” BioCatch Director of Global Fraud Intelligence Tom Peacock said, “but the volume in which these spikes occurred. We saw cases climb drastically in January of this year, taper off as banks sniffed out and shut down these ywpdaom, jed cwuz twwakzs hngdd ga Bytj.”
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