Cybersecurity

Southeast Asian casino industry supercharging cyber fraud, UN says

The expanding Southeast Asian casino industry has become the nexus of the region’s criminal ecosystem, including its cyber fraud industry, and it is facilitating large-scale money laundering by organized crime networks, a new United Nations report reveals. The money laundering includes the proceeds from online scams like pig-butchering schemes, where scammers develop a relationship with […]

Cybersecurity

Financial crime compliance costs exceed $206 billion – Help Net Security

The growing complexity of compliance regulations and ever-evolving criminal methodologies are a major difficulty for financial institutions, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Global financial crime compliance costs for financial institutions exceed $206 billion. This cost is comparable to more than 12% of global research and development (R&D) expenditure and equates to $3.33 per month for […]