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Your guide to AI innovation, adoption, and acceleration in cybersecurity
The High-Tech Crime Trends Report 2026 reveals how this shift has industrialized cybercrime, exposed the limits of perimeter-based defenses, and elevated identity and trust as the new primary attack surfaces.
Your guide to AI innovation, adoption, and acceleration in cybersecurity
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44% of Kuwaiti consumers have experienced digital fraud. KD 6M is laundered through banking channels every month. Adversaries have moved well beyond transaction abuse – into AI-enabled social engineering, SIM/eSIM manipulation, account takeover, and synthetic identity fraud.
CBK’s response is CORF, and its direction is clear.
Fraud prevention can no longer rely on post-transaction monitoring, static rules, or siloed controls.
Banks that fail to demonstrate real-time prevention, strong authentication, continuous session integrity, and audit-ready governance face supervisory scrutiny, more compliance risk, and reputational damage tied directly to customer impact.
What CORF requires in fraud and operational resilience — in plain operational termsThe 4 priority areas CBK expects banks to address in the first 6–9 monthsA phased roadmap from baseline controls to resilience maturity Levels 3–5A full compliance matrix mapping CBK requirements to technical and operational controlsWhy cyber and fraud must function as one coordinated defenseThe guide recommends advanced, integrated solutions like Group-IB Fraud Protection and BioConfirm to achieve both compliance and long-term resilience.
Group-IB Fraud Protection
Delivers constant end-to-end visibility across web and mobile environments through continuous analysis of:
device behavioursession anomaliesgeolocation signalspayment patternsuser behaviour (behavioural biometrics)
Group-IB BioConfirm
One of the strongest modern authentication solutions, enabling:
one-tap Face/Fingerprint consent on a trusted devicecryptographic tokens fraudsters can’t see/spoof/interceptphishing/SIM-swap/emulator resistance by designseamless integration with risk engines Build resilience now. Don’t wait for the mandate or emerging threats to force it. Connect with Group-IB’s META fraud experts here for a CORF compliance review and control upgrades tailored to your institution.
We see the full picture of the evolving cyber threat landscape thanks to unique tools for monitoring the infrastructure used by cybercriminals and data from battlefields:
