--- title: What the dark web can teach us about account takeover date: 2020-07-01T15:09:00+01:00 author: Gerry Carr canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover" section: Podcast --- Podcast / Account takeover Episode 28 01 July 2020 # What the dark web can teach us about account takeover Account Takeover has emerged as a substantial risk for all merchants who maintain customer accounts. Ravelin has looked at the tactics shared on the dark web and more importantly devised ways to combat the tactics. To learn more about how account takeover works, [check out our insights page here](https://www.ravelin.com/insights/account-takeover-fraud). ![What the dark web can teach us about account takeover](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_2853xAUTO_fit_center-center_none_ns/3555/Kat-Jono-on-ATO-podcast.webp)Account Takeover has emerged as a substantial risk for all merchants who maintain customer accounts. Ravelin has looked at the tactics shared on the dark web and more importantly devised ways to combat the tactics. ![Screen Shot 2018 11 30 At 16 25 38](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_122x122_crop_center-center_none_ns/2005/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-16.25.38.webp)Gerry CarrCMO (Ravelin alumnus) More from Gerry Carr - [Global CFO survey - fraud in the short-attention economy](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/global-cfo-survey-fraud-in-the-short-attention-economy) - [Charting the journey of the 3DS protocol](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/charting-the-journey-of-the-3ds-protocol) - [Ravelin releases its first fully-certified 3DS2 authentication service](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/ravelin-releases-its-first-fully-certified-3ds2-authentication-service) Share this podcast: - [](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover) - [](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=What%20the%20dark%20web%20can%20teach%20us%20about%20account%20takeover%20https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover) - [](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover&title=What%20the%20dark%20web%20can%20teach%20us%20about%20account%20takeover&summary=https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover&source=) - [](mailto:?subject=What%20the%20dark%20web%20can%20teach%20us%20about%20account%20takeover&body=What%20the%20dark%20web%20can%20teach%20us%20about%20account%20takeover%20https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/what-the-dark-web-can-teach-us-about-account-takeover) ## Related content [Blog / Payments & payment fraud ### Safeguarding agentic commerce – fraud strategy advice by Ravelin's CPO "If there’s anything fraudsters like, it’s a new thing." Here's how to protect your online shop from agentic commerce fraud – which can target you no matter whether you're actively adopting AI shopping or not. ![RAVELIN STAFF Mark Barlow Head Of product website](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_33x33_crop_center-center_none_ns/175066/RAVELIN_STAFF_Mark_Barlow_Head_Of_product_website.webp)Mark Barlow,Chief Product Officer](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/agentic-commerce-fraud-prevention-strategy-analysis) [Blog / Ravelin product ### Next-level reporting with Ravelin: Introducing Insights and AI-powered queries Discover how the new Insights section and AI-powered queries in the Ravelin Dashboard simplify your fraud reporting. ![Ashleigh](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_33x33_crop_center-center_none_ns/267519/ashleigh.webp)Ashleigh Luccini Gilera,Senior Product Marketing Manager](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/fraud-reporting-insights-ai-queries) [Blog / Payments & payment fraud ### DCAP explained: Boosting approval rates and reducing fraud with Visa's new program Online payments are increasingly won or lost on decisioning quality. With DCAP, Visa is signaling that better context will be a first-class input to authorization. ![James hogan](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_33x33_crop_center-center_none_ns/274718/james-hogan.webp)James Hogan,Senior Product Manager – Payments Engineering](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/visa-dcap-program-explained)