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Hi Ketharaman - thanks for the comment! You're right that UX consistency is important. However today there are a lot of controls in place that disrupt the UX due to all sort of security and risk policies: you're accessing from a new and untrused device, or from out of the country, or you're moving much more than you normally do (well, in these troubled times of social distancing moving irregular sums of money online for the first time is actually pretty expected as you cannot use checks or cash). In those cases there is a 'user escalation' - a transaction can be blocked, or you might need to approve it using a one time code, or someone from the bank may need to contact you. These user escalations are normally not very effective: criminals find ways around them, and honest people just get bothered. The idea of using invisible layers of visibility such as device intelligence and behavioral biometrics is to get a firm understanding of whether this activity is good or bad without any change to the UX. So, completely friction free. This can over-ride more crude controls and actually improve the UX, and it's also much more effective in terms of catching fraud. 

With regards to APP fraud, the banks are now using a clever combination of payee name verification, device intelligence, behavioral biometrics and risk-based messaging to the users, in addition to education. It's always a mix of controls and technology that can fight sophisticated attacks...

Hats off for the FBI, Justice Dept. and international law enforcement. SpyEye was a gargantuan operation and the arrest of Harderman made more ripples in the fraud underground than any prior hit on key members of the dark economy. Panin did have a gift for designing sleek UIs, though, and paved the way to a lot of modern Trojans with groovy graphics. Anyway - well done, folks.

Forgot to mention: my colleague Oren Kedem added some other findings in a Dark Reading article: http://www.darkreading.com/while-brazilians-watch-world-cup-bank-fraudsters-are-at-work/d/d-id/1297223