O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Sniffing out fraudulent sleeper cells, incubation in money transfer fraud, and adopting a more proactive stance.In this episode, O’Reilly’s Jenn Webb talks with Fang Yu, cofounder and CTO of DataVisor. They discuss sniffing out fraudulent sleeper cells, incubation in money transfer fraud, and adopting a more proactive stance against fraud.Here are some highlights: Catching fraudsters while they sleep Today's attackers are not using single accounts to conduct fraud; if they have a single account, the fraud they can conduct is very limited. What they usually do is construct an army of fraud accounts and then orchestrate either mass registration or account takeovers. Each of the individual accounts will then conduct small-scale fraud. They can do spamming, phishing, and all different types of malicious activity. But because they use many coordinated individual accounts, the attacks are massive in scale. To detect these, we take what is called an unsupervised machi