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Fraud in Focus: Exposing Organized Cloud Patterns in Government Programs

During the pandemic, fraud skyrocketed as government agencies attempted to get critical funds quickly out the door to people in need. Domestic and international crime rings took advantage of outdated verification methods -- that relied on creidt-header data or knowledge-based authoentication -- to flood government agencies with fraudulent applications. Not only were billions of dollars lost, but real applicatns were blocked from the servies they needed because they could not be validated by legacy systems, and sometimes fraudsters got to their benefits first.