What Is Phishing? How Modern Phishing Scams Work
Ask around, and the standard answer to what phishing is hasn't moved much since about 2010: bad spelling, a stranded prince, a link nobody sensible would click.
Cards & Payments
Articles, analysis, and updates from Blackcat, grouped under Cards & Payments.
How to Build an Emergency Fund Without Tracking Every Coffee
You've decided you want an emergency fund. You've also tried, at least once, to track every euro you spend to get there – and it lasted about eleven days before the receipts, the app notifications, and the guilt about a spontaneous coffee all became too much to keep up with.
Euro Card for Everyday Spending in Europe: What to Check
Most of us choose a card for reasons that have nothing to do with how it performs: the colour, a headline cashback number, the word free. Or follow our friends' choice.
3D Secure: How Online Card Payment Confirmation Works
You're buying something online — concert tickets, a flight, a pair of trainers — and just as you tap Pay, the screen pauses. Your phone buzzes. A message asks you to confirm it's really you. That short pause is 3D Secure doing its job.
Apple Pay Card Setup: How to Add a Payment Card
Your Apple Pay payment card is, in effect, a secured digital twin of the card in your pocket. Apple Pay is a mobile wallet built into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Instead of pulling out a card, you hold the device near a terminal and confirm with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.
Cashback Card Guide: What to Check Before Choosing One
You buy groceries, fill up the car, pay for a subscription, grab lunch — and a small percentage of what you spent quietly lands back in your account. No coupons. No stamps. No loyalty card to forget at home. That is card cashback in practice: a percentage of your everyday card purchases, returned to you in real money.