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Broadcom Launches Arcot Scam Defense to Block Social Engineering Fraud

$AVGOPress releaseOct 21, 2026, 9:00 AM ETRead the release

Broadcom launched Arcot Scam Defense, a new feature of its Arcot payment authentication platform designed to block social engineering fraud in card-not-present transactions. The feature adds a real-time second layer of defense that evaluates signals like device location discrepancies and delayed OTP entry, even after a successful 3-D Secure challenge.

Key figures

Pilot review scope
top 1% of successful challenges
Pilot success rate cost
0.38 points off authentication success rate
Fraud reported last 12 months
nearly half a billion dollars
Pilot estimated fraud protected
$4 million in one month for one major pilot issuer

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