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Field notes from the front line of fraud.

Takedown stories, scam-trend analysis, and engineering deep-dives from the FraudRadar team. Written for the people who actually have to defend a brand.

Field NotesMay 18, 2026

Anatomy of a 4-minute takedown: a Tier-1 bank phishing campaign

How our analyst team confirmed, attributed, and dismantled a 12-domain credential-harvesting cluster targeting a European retail bank — start to finish, in under an hour.

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Threat TrendsMay 11, 2026

The smishing economy: why SMS scams overtook email in Q1

Carriers tightened email gateways, attackers moved to SMS. We break down the infrastructure, the kit pricing, and what defenders can do about it.

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ResearchMay 4, 2026

Lookalike domains: 350,000 a day, 0.8% actually weaponized

We screen every new domain registration. Here's how we rank intent — and why most brand-protection tools drown in noise.

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IndustryApr 27, 2026

Why online sportsbooks face 3× more impersonation than retail banks

Affiliate fraud, fake bonus sites, and player-account takeover make gambling brands a unique target. A look at the data from 40+ operators.

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Field NotesApr 20, 2026

Phishing kit attribution: how one operator was behind 18% of all bank phishing in March

Forensic kit fingerprinting let us tie thousands of seemingly unrelated sites to a single developer — and predict the next campaign.

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EngineeringApr 13, 2026

How we cut classifier false positives by 73% in six weeks

A look inside the brand-tuned ML pipeline that powers FraudRadar detection — and the data work that mattered most.

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