Humbug Telecom Labs has released a Community Blacklist aimed at fighting a problem that costs businesses $80 billion each year.
“Fraud happens everywhere from small law firms, accounting offices, even the Department of Homeland Security. Attacks can quickly spread to multiple PBXs on the same network," said Yaniv Rofé, CEO of Humbug Telecom Labs. “Humbug’s fraud prevention and detection solution stops that from occurring. It’s why leading vendors are beginning to bundle in fraud protection services into existing PBXs."
Yesterday’s telecom fraud world was a fragmented environment – with each carrier, service provider and even small business fighting alone against invading hackers, abusers, and telecom fraudsters. Released into public beta, Humbug says its Community Blacklist is dramatically changing the landscape, and is the company’s first big step toward creating a true collaborative environment against the global problem of telecom fraud.
When enabled, the blacklist alert will allow users to create their own private blacklist, as well as make use of the community blacklist which contains over 55,000 abusive/fraudulent numbers submitted by community members, telecom fraud managers, law enforcement agencies and other industry sources such as the CFCA.
Enabling the community blacklist in your Humbug account gives you immediate protection from tens of thousands of blacklisted numbers, a list which is constantly being improved and fine-tuned. This alert joins a host of additional alerts that provide organizations with a previously unavailable blanket of protection against costly telecom fraud.
