Cybersecurity threats in FinTech: A systematic review
This addresses cybersecurity challenges for stakeholders like banks and governments in FinTech, but it is incremental as it builds on existing reviews with a new taxonomy.
The paper tackled the problem of cybersecurity threats in FinTech by introducing a refined taxonomy and conducting a systematic review, identifying 11 central threats and 9 defense strategies from 74 selected studies.
The rapid evolution of the Smart-everything movement and Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have given rise to sophisticated cyber threats that traditional methods cannot counteract. Cyber threats are extremely critical in financial technology (FinTech) as a data-centric sector expected to provide 24/7 services. This paper introduces a novel and refined taxonomy of security threats in FinTech and conducts a comprehensive systematic review of defensive strategies. Through PRISMA methodology applied to 74 selected studies and topic modeling, we identified 11 central cyber threats, with 43 papers detailing them, and pinpointed 9 corresponding defense strategies, as covered in 31 papers. This in-depth analysis offers invaluable insights for stakeholders ranging from banks and enterprises to global governmental bodies, highlighting both the current challenges in FinTech and effective countermeasures, as well as directions for future research.