Stripe's Vincent Passaro on Fraud Taxonomies & Generating Red Team Testing Roadmaps

Future of Threat Intelligence · Feb 12, 2026 · 1h 8m

Stripe's 3-person intel team created FT3 (fraud tools, tactics & techniques), a framework modeled after MITRE ATT&CK but purpose-built for financial fraud, to eliminate the communication breakdown where "fraud" required constant reverse engineering. The structured taxonomy now powers both analyst workflows and automated fraud systems operating at transaction-millisecond speeds, with technique-based tagging that gives fraud engines the context to make informed decisions without human interpretation of vague "fraudulent" alerts.

Vincent Passaro, Engineering Manager at Stripe Security, walks…