BBBenjamin Brundageinsynthient.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 5 min readResidential Proxy Detection: Why IP Reputation Alone Is Not EnoughHere’s the awkward question at the center of residential proxy detection: what do you do with an IP address that is both legitimate and being used as proxy infrastructure? That isn’t a hypothetical ed00
YPYahor Papouinshieldlabs.hashnode.dev·Sep 16 · 14 min read10 browser fingerprinting techniques explainedBrowser fingerprinting is the foundation of device intelligence: the way a site recognizes the same visitor without a cookie. Browser fingerprinting techniques are the individual methods a site uses t00
YPYahor Papouinshieldlabs.hashnode.dev·Sep 15 · 11 min readHow to detect anti-detect browsers in 2026In a March 2026 analysis, Stripe found that 7.4 percent of sign-ups at AI companies were implicated in suspected multi-account abuse. Behind most of that sits one quiet tool: the anti-detect browser. 00
YPYahor Papouinshieldlabs.hashnode.dev·Sep 15 · 12 min readHow to detect VPNs in 2026In a nationally representative 2025 survey of U.S. adults, 32 percent said they currently use a VPN. At that scale, masked traffic is no longer an edge case you can wave away. It is a meaningful slice00
ATAzilen Technologiesinazileninsights.hashnode.dev·Sep 9 · 9 min readAgentic AI for Fraud Detection: How Banks Can Investigate Suspicious Transactions AutomaticallyExecutive Summary Agentic AI for fraud detection helps banks move beyond simply flagging suspicious transactions. AI agents can investigate alerts by gathering transaction history, customer context, d00
PGPred Grayinipqs.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 22 min readIPQS False Positive: How a Legitimate New Domain Got a 95 Risk Score A little over two months ago, I registered a domain for personal use. The plan was simple. I wanted a permanent email address based on my last name, something like first@lastname.me. I registered the 00
UOUbani Obiajulum Emmanuelinemmanuelubani.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 17 min readI Built a Production MLOps Pipeline for Fraud Detection That Automatically Retrains When It Detects Data Drift — Full ImplementationA Fraud Detection Model That Nobody Was Watching It was the quarterly business review when the CFO asked a question nobody on the engineering team could answer. "Our fraud loss rate has been climbing 20
OIOghenemaro Ikelegbeincybersage.hashnode.dev·Aug 17 · 3 min readDetecting Synthetic Identity FraudSome of the most damaging financial fraud out there isn't committed by criminals stealing your identity. It's committed by criminals building an identity from scratch, one that never belonged to anyon00
ADAce Data Cloudinacedatacloud.hashnode.dev·Aug 4 · 8 min readFace Static Liveness Detection API: catch a photo of a photo before it becomes an accountA courier holds a phone up to a laptop screen and snaps a picture of a driving licence photo. A contractor points a webcam at a printed headshot taped to a clipboard. Both submissions arrive at your o00
GGGoose Gustiningoosegustin.hashnode.dev·Jul 30 · 8 min readWhat a Login Request Looks Like Once You Stop Trusting the BrowserTwo weeks ago I watched a login cross the network in Wireshark — passively, from the outside, reading packets as they flew past. This week I stopped one mid-flight and rewrote it before it reached the00
