GRCTV: The cyber fraud epidemic & app store scams

Panel Discussion: The cyber fraud explosion: how the pandemic catapulted cyber fraud

Since early last year, when the global pandemic began its worldwide spread, there has been a growing volume of losses caused by increasingly sophisticated scams and cyber fraud.

Between February and March 2020 spam messages multiplied 220 times - while malicious URLS increased 260 percent.

In response there has been a growth in banks fraud departments and teams. We’re joined by a panel of experts as they discuss how the pandemic created an epidemic of cyber fraud, and what organisations and individuals can be doing to combat it.

Our expert panel includes:

• Joe Tidy, BBC News
• Sean Doyle, Cybersecurity, Digital Trust and anti-Financial Crime at World Economic Forum
• Sujata Dasgupta, Global Head Financial Crime, Tata Consultancy & winner ‘Fraud Prevention 2021’ by Themis 
• Johan Gerber, Executive Vice President Security & Cyber Innovation at MasterCard
• Steve Leach, Head of Cyber and Innovation at North East Business Resilience Centre
• Guy Sheppard, Head of APAC Financial Crime and Cyber Initiatives, SWIFT

Fireside chat: An exploration of app store scams and the man investigating the multi-million dollar scams Kosta Eleftheriou

Kosta Elfetheriou is investigating how a $64-billion-a-year app store isn’t catching blatant scams.  Join our host Joe Tidy, BBC News as he delves into the world of a scam app hunter:

• How Kosta became a ‘scam app hunter’
• What some of the biggest fraudulent and scammy apps he’s found
• How the ecosystem of scams works - fake reviews etc 
• What he’s building to help customers navigate this murky world.