Defeating Advanced Fraud with Project ERICA
How a high-volume platform used our Edge-Native Immune System to stop sophisticated account takeovers without adding friction for legitimate customers.
The Challenge
A major platform was facing a sophisticated wave of synthetic fraud and credential stuffing. Attackers were using distributed proxy networks to rotate IPs, perfectly bypassing standard WAF rate-limiting and managed rules. To counter this, the engineering team had implemented aggressive CAPTCHAs, which successfully slowed the bots but severely damaged conversion rates and frustrated legitimate users.
The Blueprint
Aspida Labs deployed Project ERICA as an intelligent, post-WAF overlay natively on the edge to close the gap between application security and business logic fraud.
- Zero-Risk Deployment: ERICA was initially deployed in "Shadow Mode". For 7 days, it silently analyzed payloads and business logic in real-time, building a Bayesian baseline without blocking a single request.
- Precision Risk Scoring: We activated The 'BRAIN'—ERICA's dynamic AI engine. Instead of relying on static IP reputation, it correlated identity and behavioral impossibilities to flag fraud rings.
- Cryptographic Federation: We secured the authentication endpoints, ensuring that only trusted payloads could interact with the origin database.
The Outcome
By moving the anti-fraud intelligence directly to the edge, the platform achieved massive security gains while actually improving the user experience.
99.9%
Reduction in successful Account Takeovers (ATO)
< 2ms
Average latency added to authentication requests
Zero
Increase in false positives for legitimate users
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