Catching AI compute fraud before it blows through your forecast, without blocking the users you want to keep. Your AI compute budget started as a forecast, a clean line you could plan and price against. Lately that line keeps breaking: costs spike above plan with no launch or traffic win to explain them, and every …
Catching account takeover after the login — without adding friction for the users you want to keep. You’ve already locked the front door. The opportunity now is to extend that same confidence past the login, all the way to the session itself, so you catch abuse early, act with confidence, and protect revenue instead of …
Short answer. Organized fraud now operates like a business: specialized groups acquire, monetize, and resell access at scale, while most companies still investigate incidents one at a time. The teams pulling ahead stop treating each alert as a separate problem and start identifying the whole entity behind the activity, early enough to act. In one …
For many mature risk programs, the most significant challenge isn’t a lack of signal. Most organizations have spent years investing in sophisticated infrastructure, including complex scoring models, device and identity data, and diverse vendor platforms. On “paper”, the system appears robust: alerts fire, cases flow into manual review queues, and escalation paths are clearly defined. …
Most organizations don’t start with a clearly defined fraud problem. They start with something harder to explain. Revenue doesn’t reconcile cleanly. Behavior feels off but doesn’t trigger alerts. Complaints surface, but they don’t map to known patterns. The same edge cases keep resurfacing in different parts of the business. Nothing points to a single issue. …
FiveBy helps organizations protect high value digital assets, accounts, and customers in an increasingly automated threat landscape. We combine deep technical expertise with long term, entity level insight to help teams reduce abuse, improve accuracy, and protect trust at scale. About FiveBy Learn more about our approach, expertise, and the problems we help solve. https://fiveby.com/about …
A new lawsuit filed by Ukrainian civilians in U.S. courts illustrates a growing and often misunderstood risk for U.S. technology companies: you can face severe legal and reputational consequences even when you believe you’ve done everything right. In this case, plaintiffs allege that U.S.-made microchips were diverted, without the manufacturers’ knowledge, to the Russian military …
Client Challenge Following the 2014 U.S. embargo on Crimea, multinational companies faced the risk of violating sanctions due to resellers using sophisticated methods to hide their activities. Automated compliance systems often failed to detect these tactics, resulting in potential fines and reputational damage. The FiveBy Solution FiveBy, a risk intelligence firm, has utilized its human-driven …
Fraudsters are evolving faster than ever. For leaders in Trust and Safety, the challenge is not only to detect and prevent these threats but to measure their efforts in ways that resonate with executives and drive investment. Enter Eric Timmreck, a seasoned expert whose insights are helping fraud practitioners navigate this complex landscape. At FiveBy …
In summer 2024, 24 Hour Fitness faced a serious threat: card testing fraud. Fraudsters used stolen card data to flood the system with rapid, low-value transactions. Between June and mid-August, 27.7% of all transactions were fraudulent. The situation peaked in early August, when the surge in fraudulent activity caused the bank acceptance rate to drop …
