Terry KS At Money20/20 USA, Mastercard introduced Mastercard Threat Intelligence, a first-of-its-kind platform designed to detect and prevent cyber-enabled payment fraud by combining Mastercard’s global fraud data with Recorded Future’s cyber threat insights. The new solution empowers banks and merchants to proactively counter threats before they impact transactions.
MALAYSIA, 28 OCTOBER 2025 – Mastercard today announced the launch of Mastercard Threat Intelligence at Money20/20 USA, marking the industry’s first large-scale threat intelligence solution focused on payments. This new platform integrates Mastercard’s extensive fraud detection capabilities and global transaction visibility with Recorded Future’s cyber threat intelligence, enabling issuing and acquiring banks to identify and mitigate risks before they evolve into financial losses.
Cyberattacks often precede payment fraud, yet many institutions only discover breaches after losses occur. According to Mastercard, 60% of global fraud leaders admit they are alerted to cyber incidents only once fraud is detected. With the increasing overlap between financial and cybercrime, Mastercard Threat Intelligence aims to close this gap — facilitating collaboration between fraud prevention and cybersecurity teams.
“As the lines between cybercrime and financial crime continue to blur, innovation is an imperative,” said Johan Gerber, Global Head of Security Solutions at Mastercard. “Mastercard Threat Intelligence provides real-time, actionable insights to help organizations disrupt fraud, strengthen defenses, and take a proactive stance against threats.”
The platform’s key capabilities include:
- Card Testing Detection: Real-time alerts and proactive blocking of fraudulent test transactions.
- Digital Skimming Intelligence: Data-driven insights to combat card-skimming malware and e-commerce vulnerabilities.
- Merchant Threat Intelligence: Risk assessments and targeted intelligence for faster fraud response.
- Payment Ecosystem Threat Reports: Weekly analyses of emerging vulnerabilities in the payments sector.
- Payment Intelligence Reports: Case studies and trend data to support strategic fraud prevention.
The launch follows Mastercard’s acquisition of Recorded Future last year, underscoring the company’s commitment to a unified, intelligence-driven approach to securing the digital economy.
“Effective cybersecurity will increasingly depend on threat intelligence that crosses sectors and regions,” said Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Director of Cybersecurity at Javelin Strategy & Research. “Sharing transactional data and analytics across industries is vital to moving from reactive responses to proactive protection.”
During testing, Mastercard’s threat intelligence network helped partners dismantle malicious domains that had compromised nearly 9,500 e-commerce sites and caused an estimated $120 million in fraud.
“Mastercard Threat Intelligence will help us stay ahead of major threats and trends,” said Irvin Salinas Pineda, Fraud Expert at Banco Mercantil del Norte.
The solution is now available to issuers and acquirers globally. Visitors to Money20/20 USA can explore interactive demos of Mastercard Threat Intelligence and other innovations, including Mastercard Agent Pay and advanced identity and dispute management tools, at Booth #13061 in the Venetian Convention & Expo Center.