Fraud Intelligence at Stripe: Inside the Financial Fraud Kill Chain
Where there is money, there is fraud. Fraud is a fact of life when money is involved; however, until recently, there has not been a structured fraud-specific taxonomy to standardize the understanding of fraud and eliminate communication gaps.
This week in the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast, Will Baxter is joined by Vincent Passaro, Engineering Manager, Security at Stripe.
Passaro shares with Will the need for a fraud intelligence framework, the work they have done at Stripe to standardize one, and the value of infrastructure targeting and law enforcement collaboration.
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What six billion malware-compromised credentials reveal about the most common passwords stolen by attackers
The 2026 Specops Breached Password Report analyzes over six billion malware-stolen credentials collected during 2025, revealing how predictable password behavior, credential reuse of the most common passwords, and large-scale aggregation continue to expose organizations to identity-based attacks. Download the report to understand how attackers are harvesting, aggregating, and reusing credentials at industrial scale, and what this means for your Active Directory security.
5 Critical Data Sovereignty Challenges for Banks in Qatar
Banks operating in Qatar face distinct obligations when securing customer data, managing cross-border transfers, and maintaining regulatory compliance under evolving data sovereignty frameworks. As financial institutions digitize operations and expand partnerships with third-party service providers, demonstrating local control over sensitive financial records becomes increasingly complex.
Data sovereignty challenges for banks in Qatar intersect with operational resilience, customer trust, and the ability to scale regional services without compromising regulatory defensibility.
This article examines five critical challenges that Qatari banks encounter when enforcing data sovereignty requirements, explains why each challenge creates measurable risk, and provides architectural and governance approaches that security leaders and IT executives can operationalize.