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Financial Services

Real sender, real thread, fraudulent wire. Abnormal knows the difference.

Your team stops vendor fraud and payment redirect attacks targeting treasury and AP staff — deployed via API in minutes, no MX changes.

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BEC losses reported to the FBI in 2024 — financial services' top threat

FBI IC3 2024 Annual Report

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Surge in vendor email compromise attacks in H1 2024

Hoxhunt BEC Statistics Report 2024

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Account takeover cases one F500 insurer's gateway never detected

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The Challenge

Your Gateway Is Missing the Attacks That Cost Millions

Wire Redirect BEC with No Malicious Payload

Attackers impersonate trusted vendors or executives and request wire redirects using clean text emails. Because there are no malicious URLs, attachments, or known threat indicators, traditional gateways pass these messages through without a second look.

Compromised Vendor Invoices in Existing Threads

When a vendor's email account is compromised, attackers reply within legitimate conversation threads with updated banking details. The email passes SPF, DKIM, and DMARC because it originates from the vendor's actual infrastructure.

Account Takeover Leading to Internal Fraud

Once an attacker gains access to an employee mailbox, they can send internal requests that bypass every external email filter. They read existing conversations to learn payment workflows, then send perfectly timed requests to finance teams.

Real Incident

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Based on a real customer incident

How It Works

Behavioral AI for Financial Services

Baseline Every Identity and Relationship

Abnormal ingests signals from your email environment, HR systems, and authentication platforms to build a behavioral profile for every employee, vendor, and external contact. It learns who communicates with whom, how payment requests are typically structured, and what normal looks like for your institution — all within the first few days of deployment.

Detect Anomalies Invisible to Gateways

When an email deviates from established behavioral patterns — a vendor suddenly requesting a wire to a new account, an executive sending an unusual payment authorization, or a compromised mailbox sending internal requests — Abnormal flags and remediates the threat automatically. No signatures, no rules, no manual triage required.

Protect Outbound and Internal Communications

Beyond inbound threats, Abnormal monitors internal and outbound email to catch account takeover activity and accidental data exposure before they become incidents. Misdirected emails containing client PII are intercepted before delivery, and compromised accounts are locked down before attackers can pivot to financial fraud.

Over 25% of the Fortune 500 Trust Abnormal AI to Make Automated, Critical Security Decisions

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OFX
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Liberty Mutual Insurance
Medical Indemnity Protection Society
AAA
ClearBank

Our Impact

What Financial Services Leaders Say

“We didn't want to implement a physical or virtual appliance within the estate or risk interrupting our business operations. When we integrated Abnormal, we simply had to click an ‘Authorise OAuth’ button within our tenant and then a single sign-on SAML certificate to allow administrative access.”
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Thomas Knowles

Head of Security Operations, ClearBank

“Email is the easiest route for threat actors to get into an organisation, and it’s easy if you can spoof an email or socially engineer an individual’s behaviour. Abnormal AI solves for that and gets smarter every day.”
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Santanu Lodh

CISO, OFX

Abnormal powers over 4,500 customers, including over 25% of the Fortune 500.

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