Yuan Huang

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Yuan Huang

Global Fraud Intelligence Lead

Yuan is a Global Fraud Intelligence Lead specializing in AI-driven fraud research, cybercrime intelligence, and strategic fraud defense. Yuan’s work focuses on helping organizations understand and respond to the evolving landscape of digital financial crime, where cyber threats, fraud operations, and emerging technologies increasingly intersect. Over the years, Yuan has led and contributed to investigations involving deepfake-enabled identity fraud, phishing campaigns, Android banking malware, investment scams, mule networks, KYC bypasses, and other sophisticated fraud schemes targeting financial institutions and digital platforms across multiple regions. Beyond technical investigations, Yuan works closely with research, marketing, and business teams to transform intelligence findings into strategic insights, public research, industry awareness, and business value. Yuan’s responsibilities include leading global fraud intelligence initiatives, coordinating cross-regional research, supporting sales enablement efforts, and driving intelligence-sharing initiatives that strengthen organizational fraud resilience. Yuan is particularly passionate about the impact of AI on financial cybercrime and digital trust. As fraud ecosystems continue to industrialize and evolve globally, Yuan believes fraud intelligence must move beyond operational detection into strategic, cross-functional decision-making that bridges cybersecurity, business risk, and public awareness.

Yuan’s interests include:

• AI-enabled fraud and deepfake threats

• Cybercrime and scam ecosystem intelligence

• Threat intelligence and fraud investigations

• Digital trust and identity security

• Emerging fraud trends in APAC and global markets

• Strategic cyber fraud defense and intelligence operations

Yuan actively shares research, threat analysis, and strategic insights to support industry collaboration and helps organizations better prepare for the next generation of cyber-enabled financial crime.

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Blog posts by Yuan Huang

Scam & Phishing

The GHOST STADIUM Score: Billions At Stake At The World’s Largest Football Tournament

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup just weeks away, Group-IB researchers have uncovered six distinct fraud schemes, four independent threat actors, and over 4,300 fraudulent domains impersonating FIFA's official web presence — including a sophisticated phishing operation run by the Chinese-speaking threat actor GHOST STADIUM, whose campaign could cause losses reaching billions of dollars.

Scam & Phishing

The Architecture of Deception: How a $187 Million Fraud Ecosystem Exploits Trust Across Australia and the United States

This blog examines how threat actors use deepfake impersonation and social media to manipulate real stocks, how a network of 208 connected fake investment platforms steals millions in cryptocurrency, and what a new approach to defence can do about it.

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February 19, 2026

Beyond Tax Returns: How Shared Malware Infrastructure Scales Brand Abuse In Indonesia

It’s tax season in Indonesia and fraudsters are observed to be ramping up the fraud campaign involving fake Coretax apps, but behind it lies an industrialized MaaS infrastructure ready to strike anywhere.

Fraud Protection

The Anatomy of a Deepfake Voice Phishing Attack: How AI-Generated Voices Are Powering the Next Wave of Scams

Discover how AI voice deepfake vishing exploits trust, drains millions, and learn practical steps to detect and stop voice‑based scams.

Fraud Protection

December 4, 2024

Deepfake Fraud: How AI is Deceiving Biometric Security in Financial Institutions

Group-IB’s Fraud Protection team examines how fraudsters use deepfake technology to bypass biometric security in financial institutions, including facial recognition and liveness detection. This blog highlights the use of emulators, app cloning, and virtual cameras to exploit vulnerabilities, and highlights the financial and societal impacts of deepfake fraud.

Beware the RAT: Android Remote Access malware strikes in Malaysia

Malware Analysis

Beware CraxsRAT: Android Remote Access malware strikes in Malaysia

CraxsRAT is a notorious Android malware family known for its Remote Administration Tools (RAT), which include remote device control and advanced spyware functions like keylogging, gesture manipulation, and recording of cameras, screens, and calls.