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Police in Europe Tie Card Fraud to People-Smuggling Gang

Coordinated police raids in Germany and Sweden have resulted in the arrest of two individuals suspected of running a cyber fraud gang that used stolen payment card data to book hundreds of airline and train tickets to help smuggle people from the Middle East into Europe. The EU’s law enforcement intelligence agency Europol, which helped […]

Half of all airline website traffic comes from bad bots

Cybersecurity firm Distil Networks analyzed hundreds of billions of bad bot requests, anonymized over thousands of domains. For airlines, bad bots accounted for 43.9% of all traffic on their websites in 2017. That puts the airline sector second to only gambling websites, which had 53.9% of their traffic from bots. And it’s more than twice […]

New airline scam promises free Emirates flight tickets

Year-end celebrations are close and many people are looking to book their plane tickets to visit relatives and friends. As expected, cybercriminals are looking to exploit users over the festive period – social engineering techniques are frequent over the holidays, as demonstrated by a scam that is promising people free flight tickets. What is the […]

Travelport to launch new fraud screening product

Travelport VP Global Travel Solutions Alexandra Fitzpatrick, at the CAPA Asia Corporate Travel Summit, stated (15-Nov-2016) Travelport has several payment product launches planned for 2017. “We are planning to release a number of products in 2017 – starting out with the corporate right through to the airline,” she said. Ms Fitzpatrick said some of the […]

Global action against online air ticket fraudsters

On 16 and 17 June an international law enforcement operation against airline fraudsters took place at 140 airports across the world, resulting in the detention and investigation of 130 individuals that were found in possession of airline tickets bought using stolen credit card details. According to statistics the most rapid increase in fraudulent transactions on […]

Visa Amends Rules to Help Airline Industry

Visa Inc. announced at a recent meeting of the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)-sponsored Credit Card Working Group (CCWG) that effective October 2015 it will accept airline-supplied flight manifests as a remedy for fraud payment card chargebacks. This remedy represents an opportunity for the airline industry to recoup millions of dollars lost each year in “friendly […]

Airlines to accept Bitcoins

UATP, the low cost payment network privately owned by the world’s airlines, has teamed up with Bitnet as a payment processing partner. This will allow UATP to offer its network of over 260 airlines the ability to accept bitcoin payments in a simplified manner. Ralph Kaiser, president and chief executive of UATP, said: “We are […]