Cybercriminals launched 7.78 million attacks against U.K. businesses and nearly 1 million against charity organizations, according to the latest U.K. government survey report. But fewer than half of those firms reported the incidents to authorities, something researchers say is a concerning trend.
While banks and fraud fighters focus their energies on combating synthetic identities used by individuals, fraudsters are simultaneously establishing fake business entities to exploit the system for more money with far less hassle. The problem is getting worse and is not restricted to the U.S.
The banking and financial services industry will see an increase in scams and frauds perpetrated through fake businesses, incentivizing bad actors to continue creating these fraudulent entities, said Mary Ann Miller, a fraud and cybercrime executive adviser with Prove.
Fraudsters increasingly focus on synthetic entity fraud because forming a corporation requires few verification checks. This lack of rigorous verification by business registrars has led to an explosion in fake companies, said Andrew La Marca at Dun & Bradstreet.
First-party fraud hits banks from many different places - credit card fraud claims, bust-out schemes, lending fraud and synthetic identity fraud. The diversity of scams poses major challenges in spotting fraudulent activity, said Frank McKenna, chief strategist and co-founder of Point Predictive.
About 20% of new companies created in the U.K. every day - or some 800 firms - are scams. These fake businesses are being created from an ocean of stolen high-quality data related to real people, making it hard to spot the fraudsters, said Graham Barrow, director of "The Dark Money Files" podcast.
First-party fraudsters have shifted their focus from credit card fraud to deposit scams. In this evolving threat environment, financial institutions face new challenges from the increased use of synthetic identities and the difficulties in classifying first-party fraud, said BioCatch's Seth Ruden.
Unlike identity theft, first-party fraud is harder to spot when a consumer opens an account. To guard against this growing blind spot, banks need to invest in transaction-monitoring tools and take a more holistic approach to fraud, said Ian Mitchell, co-founder of Mission Omega.
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Synthetic IDs remain a problem not because of a lack of data but because of failure to identify the right data and establish correlations, said Steve Lenderman, co-chair of the Industry Working Groups for the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
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Supply chain attacks and zero-day exploits surged in 2023, helping to set yet another record for data breaches tracked by the Identity Theft Resource Center. James E. Lee, COO of the group, explained why the number of compromises grew so dramatically - from 1,801 incidents in 2022 to 3,205 in 2023.
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