Nasdaq Verafin, the fraud detection and anti-money laundering platform, has partnered with Q6 Cyber, the dark web intelligence specialist, to give financial institutions earlier warning of emerging fraud and scam threats.
The partnership brings Q6 Cyber’s dark web fraud intelligence together with Nasdaq Verafin’s consortium data insights within a single platform, aiming to help banks and credit unions spot and act on threats before fraudulent transactions occur. Stolen checks, payment cards and online banking credentials are increasingly traded on private forums and encrypted channels, and the combined offering is designed to give institutions a fuller view of these risks as they emerge.
Under the arrangement, Nasdaq Verafin will fold Q6 Cyber’s dark web fraud intelligence into its existing fraud and anti-money laundering platform, so that financial institutions receive this data directly within the same workflow they already use to investigate fraud cases.
Q6 Cyber keeps watch over dark web marketplaces, deep web forums and encrypted messaging platforms, flagging threats including compromised checks, payment cards and online banking credentials. This intelligence will sit alongside Nasdaq Verafin’s consortium network, which spans more than 2,800 financial institutions and over 850 million counterparties, with the goal of giving institutions a more complete picture of fraud risk so they can respond earlier and limit losses when suspicious activity is already in motion.
Nasdaq Verafin provides fraud detection and anti-money laundering technology built on shared intelligence from its network of financial institution clients, while Q6 Cyber specialises in monitoring the dark web and adjacent criminal communities to surface confirmed compromises before they translate into fraud losses.
Over the past year and a half, Q6 Cyber has gathered more than 1.2 million compromised checks, 57 million unique compromised credentials and 158 million compromised payment cards from the hundreds of thousands of financial crime sources it tracks. Because this intelligence is sourced directly from within the communities trading stolen data, the partnership is designed to deliver actionable alerts within minutes to hours of information surfacing on the dark web, typically well ahead of any resulting fraud attempt.
Colin Parsons, head of fraud product strategy at Nasdaq Verafin, said, “Financial institutions have long been at a structural disadvantage when it comes to fraud, as they can only see threats once they arrive. By integrating Q6 Cyber’s capabilities directly into Nasdaq Verafin, we are giving our clients the ability to identify fraud threats before the first fraudulent transaction is ever attempted. That kind of proactive protection is what banks and credit unions need to stay ahead in a threat environment that’s evolving faster than traditional defenses.”
Eli Dominitz, CEO of Q6 Cyber, said, “Access to these sources and communities is not something you can buy or crawl. Our intelligence is highly impactful because over the past ten years, we have built a massive network of proprietary sources deep inside the dark web, going after the threat actors that target financial institutions.
“With first-hand access, every piece of intelligence we deliver is a confirmed compromise or threat rather than an exposure score. Bringing that into Nasdaq Verafin puts it in front of the fraud fighters who can act on it days or weeks before the fraud event even occurs.”
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