Mitigate Security Threats and Keep Accounts and Identities Safe
Criminals’ tactics are always changing. So is the technology that can help head them off. Javelin’s analysis can help keep financial institutions—and thus their customers—a step ahead. Further, Javelin can help you position your customers as partners in protecting their own information from would-be thieves.
Recent Fraud and Security Research
Reports
New-Account Fraud: Old Problem, New Challenges
Fraudsters are finding new ways to open accounts without being detected. By using bots, AI-generated documents, deepfakes, and synthetic identities, they can slip past onboarding controls. This report examines why new-account fraud goes unnotice...
Avoid the Fake: How AI Can Stop Bank Impersonation
Bank impersonation scams are on the rise and getting harder to detect. Criminals are using stolen information and crafting convincing messages to pose as banks, leaving victims in their wake. This report outlines how financial institutions can c...
From Silos to Signals: Strengthening Fraud Detection With Integrated Intelligence
This report, sponsored by Plaid, explores how siloed fraud prevention leaves gaps that fraudsters frequently exploit. It examines why many financial institutions struggle to detect complex fraud patterns, which often occur across multiple channe...
Outsmarting AI-driven fraud
Build smarter defenses. Reduce real losses. Fraud isn’t just evolving—it’s accelerating. Synthetic identities, deepfakes, and first-party fraud are exposing gaps in outdated approaches.
The Understated Cyber Vulnerabilities of Wealth Management Clients
Phishing attacks remain the most pervasive and concerning for wealth clients, but cybersecurity risk as a whole is a growing worry for financial advisors, who feel increasingly ill-equipped to support their clients with and around cyberthreat mi...
Deepfake Accountability: Overcoming Hurdles to Effective Legislation
Deepfakes are not new to the financial services industry, nor are they a new threat to consumers. But artificial intelligence has contributed to the rapid increase in deepfake-related fraud and scams that are being inflicted on U.S. consumers. N...
Real-Time Defenses: Fraud Prevention in a Blended Threat Era
This report, sponsored by Mitek, explores the immediate and long-term risks associated with identity fraud that stems from criminals’ use of a combination of traditional and new data sources and advanced tactics. This report further establishes ...
Multi-Layered Fraud Defense: Strategies for Evolving Threats
This report, sponsored by TransUnion, explores how identity fraud continues to evolve across new and existing accounts, exposing weaknesses in traditional identity verification and authentication processes. This report highlights why many busine...
Blended threats, real-time defenses: Confronting the rise of identity fraud in 2025
Fraud experts Jennifer Pitt from Javelin and Carmel Maher from Mitek as they break down key takeaways from the Javelin 2025 Identity Fraud Study: Breaking Barriers to Innovation. We explore how today’s hybrid fraud landscape demands a new genera...
The Hidden Enemy: Iran’s Cyberthreat to U.S. Banks
Disinformation is among the leading cyber risks predicted in the wake of the June 21 U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. On June 22, the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert about increased cyber risk to critical infrastructure be...