Arkose Labs Launches Arkose Device ID: A Dual-Method Approach to Precise, Persistent Device Identification

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 19, 2024--

Arkose Labs, the leader in digital risk intelligence, enabling genuine users, mitigating bots and advancing fraud detection modules, today announced the launch of Arkose Device ID, a powerful device identification solution that raises the bar in fraud detection by combining precise device tracking with session-based risk signals and anti-spoofing technology. Arkose Device ID is designed to address the growing sophistication of cyber threats, which are impacting businesses globally with increasing frequency and intensity.

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In a new research report, Arkose Labs found that more than 70% of enterprises cite identity-based attacks—including fake account creation and account takeovers (ATO)—as their top security concern. Of these threats, 40% are AI-powered, underscoring the evolving tactics of attackers who continue to exploit vulnerabilities in traditional defenses. Arkose Device ID offers a resilient solution for businesses to proactively identify devices, track behavior and prevent attacks before they escalate.

“Arkose Device ID goes beyond traditional device fingerprinting,” said Vikas Shetty, head of product at Arkose Labs. “By leveraging session-based risk insights with unique identifiers and spoofing detection technology, Arkose Device ID allows organizations to recognize distinctive devices so they can distinguish between genuine users, bots and bad actors with unparalleled precision. Arkose Device ID helps prevent fraud before it can escalate and provides a seamless experience for legitimate users.”

Arkose Device ID stands out with its unique combination of stateless and stateful identification methods. Stateless identification leverages real-time telemetry and fingerprint data, while stateful identification stores an identifier directly on the user’s device, enabling unmatched tracking precision. Used together, these approaches ensure accurate, persistent and durable device identification that offers robust protection against fraud while minimizing user friction. By adding Arkose Device ID to the Arkose Labs’ platform, enterprises can assign unique device identifiers to all incoming traffic, gaining visibility into user behaviors tied to those devices from the first interaction—without requiring additional vendors or datasets.

An engineering leader at a fast-growing neobank recently remarked on the critical importance of this capability: “We’re really good at making sure that known fraudsters can’t keep targeting us with the same device, stolen identity or what have you. But we’re not as effective at catching them early on. That’s where device identification becomes crucial.”

Key benefits of precise, persistent and durable device identification include:

Arkose Labs’ award-winning innovation drives the continuous enhancement of its platform, providing the capabilities needed to tackle swiftly evolving threats. Along with Arkose Device ID, the company also is introducing today multiple high-impact features to streamline user experiences and strengthen customers’ resilience to automated attacks, offering more sophisticated detection signals than other vendors and improved mitigation strategies.

For more information on Arkose Device ID and other new capabilities, visit the announcement blog.

About Arkose Labs

The world’s most recognizable brands, including two of the top three banks, social media companies and tech titans, trust Arkose Labs to enable a seamless experience for genuine users and protect against online fraud, such as account takeovers, fake account creation and MFA compromise. Drawing on insights from our extensive cross-industry intelligence network—encompassing legitimate and attack patterns from the world’s leading companies—and enhanced by digital risk signals like email intelligence, behavioral biometrics and device profiling, we proactively neutralize bots and bad actors. We share comprehensive fraud detection intelligence with our customers to enhance and optimize their internal risk models. No one else provides more proactive support for internal security teams, actively takes down threat actor groups or excels like Arkose Labs in sabotaging the profitability of the most advanced, AI-driven attackers. Based in San Mateo, California, Arkose Labs operates worldwide with offices in Asia, Australia, Central America, EMEA and South America.

Arkose Device ID is designed to address the growing sophistication of cyber threats, which are impacting businesses globally with increasing frequency and intensity. (Graphic: Business Wire)

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The trial of a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape and abuse him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s is set to begin Tuesday.

It's the second criminal trial to stem from a broad 2019 investigation into historic abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. Bradley Asbury, now age 70, is among nine men who worked at the Manchester center or an associated facility in Concord who are facing criminal charges.

Asbury and a colleague are accused of restraining the boy in the dormitory where Asbury served as house leader in 1997 while a third staffer raped him and a fourth forced him to perform a sex act. The boy was about 13 at the time.

Three years earlier, Asbury had been fired from the Concord facility over allegations of physical and psychological abuse. But he was later rehired and transferred to Manchester, where he worked until 2001.

Asbury is charged with two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated sexual assault. If found guilty, he faces a maximum prison term of 20 years on each count. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and prosecutors said they don't comment on active cases.

An earlier case against Victor Malavet ended in a mistrial in September after jurors deadlocked on whether he raped a girl at the Concord facility. A new trial in that case has yet to be scheduled.

The investigation has also led to extensive civil litigation. More than 1,100 former residents have filed lawsuits alleging physical, sexual or emotional abuse spanning six decades. In the only civil case to go to trial so far, a jury awarded David Meehan $38 million in May for abuse he says he suffered in the 1990s, though that verdict remains in dispute as the state seeks to reduce it to $475,000.

The Meehan civil trial provided a preview for the current case. Among those testifying was Asbury’s accuser, Michael Gilpatrick, who testified that Asbury and three other staffers were known by teens in the dormitory as “the hit squad.”

“The four of them used to roll together, and they would go to different cottages and beat kids,” he said. “They would literally come over and just go door to door and beat every single one of us, down the line.”

The Associated Press generally does not identify those who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they have come forward publicly, as Meehan and Gilpatrick have done.

Gilpatrick, who spent three years at the Manchester center in the 1990s, testified that he ended up there after running away from multiple group homes, committing a burglary and stealing food to survive on the streets.

He said the sexual assault involving Asbury happened after he ran away while on a furlough. He had already spent several days locked in his empty room wearing only his underwear when the workers brought him to the house leader’s office and then to a stairwell, he testified.

He said the assault led to an out-of-body experience.

“It felt like I hovered over and watched it,” Gilpatrick said. “My body just went blank.”

Gilpatrick said Asbury was a bad man.

“Not only did he have power over all the kids, he had power over the staff as well.”

In 2000, during a state investigation into physical abuse and neglect at the youth center, Asbury denied there was a problem.

“That stuff does not take place. It’s not tolerated," Asbury told The Union Leader. "We don’t have time to abuse them.”

The trial highlights the strange dynamic of the state simultaneously defending itself against civil suits relating to the youth center while also prosecuting criminal cases.

During the first civil case to go to trial, the state portrayed Asbury as a dedicated worker who won accolades for organizing volunteer work for the teenagers. In the current case, the state intends to portray Asbury in a much darker light.

FILE - Michael Gilpatrick, a former youth detention center resident, fights back tears as testifies during a civil trial seeking to hold the state accountable for alleged abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called the Youth Development Center, April 17, 2024, at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool, File)

FILE - Bradley Asbury is arraigned via video as Judge William Lyons presides, at right, at Manchester, N.H., April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)

FILE - The Sununu Youth Services Center is seen amongst the trees on Jan. 28, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)