Fraud has always been a business. Attackers invest in tools, infrastructure and labor because the return justifies the investment. For years, the security industry’s answer to fraud was detection, and that worked well enough, not because it was perfect, but because it took attackers real time, real tools and real effort to build new ways … Continued
In Part 1 of this piece, I described what agentic AI attacks actually look like in practice; the digital factory model, where agents commit fraud, and the three properties that make agentic AI attackers categorically different from traditional bot tooling: autonomous iteration, session-to-session learning, and identity spoofing at the interaction layer. Now I want to … Continued
This is part 1 of a two-part series on agentic AI fraud defense. Since joining Arkose Labs, one of the first things I did was go deep on the threat data — what the attack patterns actually look like, how autonomous systems probe defenses, where classification breaks down and where it holds. That data has … Continued
The fraud landscape has reached an inflection point. Traditional fraud prevention approaches of treating fake account registrations, account takeovers, account security and payment protection as problems to be solved by different solutions no longer match the sophistication of modern attackers. Cybercriminals don’t think in silos. They exploit weaknesses of point solutions across the entire customer … Continued
We’re pleased to share that Arkose Labs has been recognized as a notable vendor in the recent Forrester Bot and Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025 report. For us, this recognition validates our position in an emerging market that’s being reshaped by the rise of AI agents. Our Approach to the Evolving Landscape The … Continued
Fraudsters now operate across various frequencies: rapid-fire bot and scaled attacks that overwhelm defenses and deliberate, low-and-slow tactics that evade detection controls. Sophisticated attackers have more tools and sophistication at their disposal – they combine automation with manual techniques, creating hybrid attacks that exploit the gaps between stand alone security and fraud prevention tools. A … Continued
The New Fraud Frontier: How AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules Pop quiz: What percentage of your traffic is from agentic AI? If you answered “I don’t know,” you are not alone – and you’re sitting on a major blind spot that’s both a risk and an opportunity. Even though agentic AI traffic today is … Continued
The scale of credential theft through phishing has reached alarming proportions. Recent analysis of the LabHost phishing operation reveals that nearly 990,000 Canadians were directly victimized, with attackers primarily targeting private sector enterprises (76%) over government agencies (24%). The operation generated over 1.2 million total incidents across Canada, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars … Continued
