After years of quiet escalation, business leaders are finally beginning to grasp just how serious the threat of fraud has become. Today, almost half of all fraud attempts (41%) involve artificial intelligence. Nowhere is this more evident than in the payments industry. Fraudsters can use AI to generate convincing fake invoices, purchase orders, and payment instructions that mirror legitimate business documents. I’ve seen examples that are indistinguishable from the real thing, which is a tre
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The Dun & Bradstreet Financial Services & Insurance Pulse Survey 2025, built on responses from more than 2,000 senior professionals across five markets (US, UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland), reveals a sector racing to modernize but hamstrung by legacy systems, fragmented data, and intensifying cyber risk. It is a familiar paradox for CISOs: record spending on innovation yet growing unease that resilience isn't keeping pace. Cybersecurity sits at the very top of industry concern, with 79% of f
Credit rating company TransUnion has suffered a data breach, which has impacted the personal information of nearly 4.5 million Americans. The firm revealed that unauthorized access was gained to a third-party application serving its US consumer support operations in a notification letter to impacted customers. The information was limited to specific data elements and did not include credit reports or core credit information.
TransUnion has not publicly provided any more details on the nature o
