Mid-sized Financial Institutions Struggle to Fight Fraud: A Case Study

The financial industry continues to be a high-risk target for fraud, primarily fueled by the sale of stolen credentials, account numbers, pins, and personal and financial information.

While larger financial institutions have dedicated in-house teams and sophisticated technologies in place to detect incidents, mid-sized banks and credit unions don't often have the same resources available to combat fraud and are becoming a more attractive target to malicious actors.This case study examines a mid-sized credit union that adopted Matchlight to expand its information security coverage to a volatile area where few companies have a strategy in place.

Download this case study to discover:

• Why this mid-sized credit union, BCU, needed to fully understand the frequency with which their data appeared on the dark web and location in which the data was appearing;
• How Matchlight approached this problem by combining automation with human analysis to conduct comprehensive dark web data collection and monitoring;
• The results including the identification of hundreds of BCU cards (both credit and debit) listed across several major carding markets on the dark web.