By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent
BIOCATCH is using the way people type, such as the cadence of their keystrokes, to catch scammers, the company has said.
Gadi Mazor, the CEO at BioCatch, said the firm can also use behaviours like mouse click length to spot scams.
“What we’re looking at is, when someone holds the phone, we’re looking at how this slide and how they hold the phone,” he said during a speech at ‘International Anti-Financial Crime Summit 2026’ (IAFCS 2026).
“We compare the behavior in that specific session to the behavior of the same user in previous sessions.
“So let’s say this is likely an account takeover. [It is] because the behavior, the way they hold the device, the type, the cadence of typing, the length of the click of the mouse, are [all] different relative to previous sessions.”
BioCatch has made a digital fraud prevention platform that banks and financial businesses build directly into their existing mobile apps and websites.
When a customer logs into their banking app, the software runs completely in the background to analyze how the user physically interacts with the screen or keyboard.
In August, Visa signed a deal to buy BioCatch for $2.4 billion.
BioCatch efforts to detect scammers
Mazor said that BioCatch’s detection software extends to other behavioural patterns, such as how someone types their account password.
“When someone onboards to a new credit card or an account, we look at how they type their social security number or their postcode or the national ID number,” he said.
“If they type their own number, they type it continuously, usually with no mistakes.
“[But] when it’s a fraudster, they will paste that information. They will type it chunkily, etcetera. So we’re looking at the digital body language of how they [scammers] do things when they interact with the bank application or the bank website.”
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