The ThreatMetrix Q3 Cybercrime Report noted a number of year-over-year changes and trends in all industries:

Financial services: Mobile-banking transactions grew by 250% over Q3 2015. In addition, attacks on payment transactions continued to grow, and login attacks took a massive jump. While fraudsters still see financial services as a more challenging target than other retail transactions, attacks on financial services customers can be devastating, and risk exposure and potential brand damage for businesses is high.
E-commerce: As digital e-commerce transactions have grown, bot attacks continue to be widespread and persistent, occasionally surpassing legitimate transaction traffic. Q3 2016 saw 76 million blocked e-commerce transactions, the highest number ever, and a 60% increase over the third quarter 2015. Attacks on logins and payment transactions grew 30% and 70%, respectively, over the previous year, a trend that will likely pick up steam into the 2016 holiday season.
Digital media/social networks: More attacks take place on these types of accounts than on any other kind of transaction. Bot traffic can account for more than 90% of transaction volume at certain times. Q3 2016 saw attacks on nearly one in five transactions. Attacks on new account creations have gone up by almost 400% over the previous year. However, rejected transactions also increased by about 80% over the third quarter in 2015.

"It is this ability for a fraudster to masquerade convincingly as the legitimate customer that is a far more pervasive challenge for global digital businesses, leading to higher instances of account takeover and new account origination fraud, both of which we see prolifically in our network." Alistdair Faulkner, chief products officer at Threatmetrix, said in the report.

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