Cumulative losses due to online payment fraud set to increase

According to Juniper Research, cumulative merchant losses to online payment fraud globally between 2023 and 2027 will exceed $343 billion. The purchase of physical goods will generate the most cumulative losses from online payment fraud globally in the next 5 years, growing by 110%.

Despite the increasingly widespread use of identity verification measures, attackers manage to do irreversible damage with innovations in areas such as account takeover fraud, where a user’s account is hijacked.

The biggest challenge is the specificity of each individual online transaction, so there is no one-size-fits-all solution to counter attacks where techniques range from phishing, business email compromise to socially engineered fraud.

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