SCA stories
Four of New Zealand’s biggest lenders are testing AI-driven payments as Visa moves to safeguard shopping across merchants and platforms.
Merchants using the platform saw transaction approval rates rise by 2.6% in the first quarter, as AI pinpointed decline causes across entire data sets.
The award underscores rising demand for software tools that spot structural risk as AI coding assistants flood enterprise systems with new code.
The round values the software supply chain security company at USD $1 billion as AI coding boosts the flow of third-party code into production.
Customers in regulated sectors will get faster AI roll-outs as the pact ties cloud migration, connectivity and sovereignty controls into one offer.
Developers using generative AI will get hands-on lessons on prompt injection and data leakage as AWS expands Bedrock adoption.
Merchants could win back lost sales as tokenised checkout trims friction, reduces card-not-present fraud and keeps payment data in bank rails.
Banks face a costly overhaul as EU rules will soon make digital identity wallets mandatory for strong customer authentication, reshaping onboarding and fraud checks.
Attackers hid malware in familiar package workflows, prompting Sonatype to log 21,764 malicious open-source packages in the quarter.
Most engineering teams could struggle to meet EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting deadlines, with many still handling SBOMs manually or only after incidents.
Organisations remain exposed as malware in open-source packages surged in 2025, with most advisories and account takeovers reported last year.
Recurring bank payments could soon replace some cards and direct debits as UK Payments Initiative rolls out a new open banking scheme.
Malicious open source packages are increasingly slipping past spelling checks, exposing developer data and build systems to supply-chain attacks.
Independent testing showed the firm's face checks can block spoofing on mainstream phones while avoiding friction for genuine users.
Retailers are bearing the cost as millions of valid card payments are challenged, leaving banks to refund GBP £3.5 billion in a year.
High decline rates and chargeback risk are already hitting merchants as AI agents struggle to pass payment checks built for human shoppers.
UK Xero users can now manage supplier, expense and employee payments in one place as Dext expands its payments tool with payroll.
Poor checkout experiences are costing European retailers repeat business, as payabl.'s new Visa Click to Pay aims to cut friction and fraud.
Australian developers can now access free vulnerability tools as Vulnetix takes a formal role in global software flaw tracking.
Australian organisations face fresh risk of cloud and identity compromise as the cyber watchdog reissues its alert on repository attacks.
