Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, has launched Mastercard Threat Intelligence — its first-ever threat intelligence solution designed to combat payment fraud at scale.
The announcement was made at Money20/20 USA, marking a major step in Mastercard’s continued investment in cybersecurity innovation.
The launch comes amid growing concern over the convergence of cybercrime and financial fraud. According to Mastercard, 60% of global fraud leaders only learn about cyber breaches after fraud losses begin. As cyberattacks increasingly precede financial crimes, Mastercard developed this new solution to help banks and merchants identify threats earlier, prevent fraudulent activity, and respond more effectively.
Mastercard, known for its global payments network and fraud prevention technologies, has been expanding its cybersecurity capabilities to strengthen trust across the digital economy. The company provides a wide range of solutions that enable consumers, businesses, and governments to make secure and seamless transactions worldwide.
The newly introduced Mastercard Threat Intelligence integrates Mastercard’s proprietary fraud insights and network visibility with curated cyber threat intelligence from Recorded Future’s platform. The combined approach allows payment fraud and merchant compliance teams at issuing and acquiring banks to proactively detect, prevent, and respond to cyber-enabled fraud.
Among its key features, the product offers card testing detection to block fraudulent test transactions in real time, digital skimming intelligence to assess skimmer impacts and disrupt card malware, and merchant threat intelligence to help banks assess risk faster. It also includes weekly ecosystem threat reports highlighting emerging vulnerabilities and detailed fraud trend analyses to strengthen defences.
The solution builds on Mastercard’s acquisition of Recorded Future less than a year ago, reinforcing the company’s commitment to providing an intelligence-led, unified approach to digital security.
Mastercard global head of security solutions Johan Gerber said, “As the lines between cybercrime and financial crime continue to blur, innovation is an imperative. Mastercard Threat Intelligence provides customers with actionable, real-time and targeted risk insights to disrupt fraudulent transactions, inform strategic defense and ultimately enable a more proactive approach.”
Javelin Strategy & Research director of cybersecurity Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg added, “Effective cybersecurity will increasingly depend on threat intelligence that crosses sectors and regions. Vendors with broad transactional data and analytics will play a key role in improving information-sharing among financial services, merchants and across the industry.”
She continued, “New doors are opening for advanced threat intel, facilitated through successful cyber fusion that incorporates a myriad of tools across identity verification, fraud detection, and indicators of compromise. Feeding threat intel across disparate teams and industries in meaningful and useful ways will help fraud and cybersecurity teams more readily identify trends, placing them in positions to move from reactive response to proactive mitigation.”
Threat intelligence from Mastercard has already proven effective during its pilot phase, helping ecosystem partners take down malicious domains responsible for payment card data theft. Over six months, the testing identified nearly 9,500 affected e-commerce sites linked to around $120m in fraudulent activity.
Banco Mercantil del Norte fraud expert Irvin Salinas Pineda said, “Mastercard Threat Intelligence will help us to keep the pace with main threats and trends, something that is not possible today due to high-demanding operations in the bank.”
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