White Paper

One Adversary, One Workflow

Cyber-Fraud Fusion: a practical framework for unifying cybersecurity and anti-fraud defence. The evidence, the economics, and the maturity path.

10×

Faster containment of a deepfake KYC scheme under a fused workflow than a siloed one.

$187M

Fake-platform scam network unravelled from a single detection through infrastructure graphing.

0.027%

Fraud success among fused-defence institutions during a live malware campaign, roughly 9× below the market.

About

A modern fraud campaign is run as one continuous operation, infrastructure to credentials to takeover to cash-out, often by specialised criminal groups cooperating through a marketplace. Most institutions defend that chain with three separate teams: cyber, fraud, and anti-money-laundering, meeting at the quarterly risk committee.

The gap between those teams is where fraud lives. And one stage of every campaign, credential theft, typically belongs to no team at all: no perimeter was touched, no session yet exists, so it falls straight through.

Cyber-Fraud Fusion closes that gap. One picture of the adversary, one chain defended end to end, one loop where every blocked session sharpens the next detection. This paper sets out why separated defences are structurally outmatched, quantifies the difference fusion makes on live campaigns, and lays out a staged path any institution can begin this quarter, with the staff it already has.

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Download this whitepaper to learn:

Why defending cyber and fraud separately leaves the middle of the criminal chain unowned
The four blind spots of transaction-layer fraud prevention, and why more spend on the same position never closes them
How real-time payments and 2026 regulation across six jurisdictions turned fusion from good practice into board-level urgency
What a fused defence changed on three live operations: synthetic identity, industrialised scams, and banking malware
The seven-metric scorecard for measuring fusion in your own numbers
The four-stage maturity path, and the 90-day first move that needs no new headcount and no new platform

Fraud is the monetisation stage of a cyber operation. Institutions that defend the two separately are structurally outmatched.

The Group-IB Team

Group-IB, named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, with its cyber fraud fusion model cited.

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