Fraud Prevention
Stop Fraud Before The First Transaction
Q6 intercepts stolen checks, cards, and account credentials within minutes of their surfacing on the Dark Web — so you can act before fraud ever starts, not after.
Five Modules, One Subscription
Q6 Cyber gives you a time advantage no traditional fraud tool can: confirmed intelligence on stolen checks, cards, and account credentials while they’re still circulating underground, not after they’ve already cost you. We monitor the criminal underground around the clock, then analyze, deduplicate, and correlate what we find into targeted, actionable intelligence, delivered 24×7 through our portal or as structured, automation-ready feeds, so your team can act before the loss happens. The Fraud Prevention Package includes the following:
Customer Account Takeovers
Compromised customer account and device credentials, captured directly from malware exfiltration logs and criminal marketplaces before attackers ever log in.
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- Provides concrete evidence of which customers’ accounts have already been compromised or are at an elevated risk of account takeover including ACH, wire, Zelle fraud, and other unauthorized activity etc.
- Delivered through our portal or as an automation-ready feed, with every account deduplicated so it’s never flagged twice.
- Reduces account takeovers, turning a would-be loss into a confirmed “Pre-Fraud” prevention.
- Reduces customer friction and enhance trust.
Check Fraud
Provides concrete evidence of which customers’ checks have been circulated on the dark web for impending deposit.
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- Stolen, forged, and digitally altered checks, identified through Q6’s unique access to Dark Web check stores and Telegram marketplaces, are often seen an average of seven days before deposit is attempted.
- We deliver the original check image alongside OCR-extracted details, so analysts see exactly how it was altered.
- Mitigates check fraud with Positive Pay, stop payments or account closure and replacement, averaging seven days of lead time.
Compromised Payment Cards
Provides concrete evidence of the cards with impending fraudulent transactions, which can also reveal an insightful breadcrumb trail of fraudster transaction behavior.
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- Confirmed compromised debit and credit cards, deduplicated so the same card is never delivered as a repeat alert.
- We also help trace the common point of compromise behind each card, enabling further opportunities to flag compromised cards and treat the root causes.
- Reduce card fraud by reissuing or applying targeted monitoring only to the accounts genuinely at risk.
Breach Alerts
Early warning of merchant and payment-processor breaches that expose your customers’ cards, confirmed by Q6 and delivered through the same portal and feed channels as every other module, with no separate integration required.
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- Because of Q6’s unique access into carefully guarded reaches of the Dark Web, we often find breach intel sooner than the card brands and processors.
- Impact: Get ahead of third-party breaches before the resulting fraud wave hits.
Fraud Insights
Proprietary research and bulletins on emerging fraud trends and tactics, drawn from Q6’s direct view into the Dark Web and vast network of financial institutions around the world.
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- Includes practical recommendations and best practices to mitigate risk, often tailored for different audiences.
- This intelligence is always made available to clients first, and sometimes exclusively.
- For fraud leaders, this means spotting new tactics, like emerging MFA-bypass methods, before they reach your institution.
Actionable intelligence drives substantial ROI
7x–25x
Documented client ROI, measured against each client’s own loss and disposition data — calculated in the portal on your variables, and reported annually.
| Institution | Return | Multiple |
|---|---|---|
| Regional bank$17B in assets | 25.7x | |
| Global FI$2.5T in assets | 25x | |
| Top 50 US bank$93B in assets | 22.1x | |
| Credit union$4.5B in assets | 18.5x | |
| Top 50 FI$50B in assets | 17.9x | |
| Regional bank$16B in assets | 15.8x | |
| Credit union$4.5B in assets | 7.0x |
Select examples of 2024 client ROI. A $4.5B credit union lands within a few points of a $2.5T global institution — size is not what determines the return, speed of action is.
What that looks like at one institution
Behind every multiple above sits an itemized year of prevented loss. This is one of them.
A $25B institution, first six months
202 checks identified on underground sites across 150 unique accounts — $1.2M in face value and more than $66M in accumulated account value at the time of alert. $1.2M in losses prevented, $66M in exposure mitigated.
Q6 Cyber has transformed our approach to fraud prevention. Their proactive intelligence provides us with the critical early warning we need to stay ahead of fraudsters and cybercriminals.
Diana Romsek — Loss Mitigation Manager, Lake Trust Credit Union
About 30 minutes to start
Setup requires only monitoring identifiers — card BINs, routing numbers, and online banking domains.
Nothing touches your network
No network access, no core integration, and no customer PII, account, or transaction data.
Delivered how you work
IntelliHawQ portal with role-based access and SSO, or structured automation-ready feeds via API.
Thanks to Q6 Cyber’s proactive intelligence, our debit card fraud losses are down 50% vs. last year. Our fraud prevention program is no longer reactive — it has become more proactive and more dynamic. The impact has been tremendous.
Chief Information Security Officer, Financial institution operating in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia
