Human, Bot or Agent? Establishing Trust in the Next Generation of Ecommerce | Presented by Darwinium

This one-hour agentic fraud webinar from the Merchant Risk Council, presented by Darwinium, starts at 13:00 GMT on 2 December 2026. It addresses a new problem for online retail: AI that orchestrates whole fraud campaigns rather than isolated attacks. Autonomous systems can probe customer journeys, create and age accounts, adapt to controls, abuse promotions and move toward account takeover or cash-out.

The session argues that point-in-time fraud decisions are no longer enough and shows how fraud and security teams can share journey intelligence to detect coordinated attacks and tell legitimate AI shopping agents from malicious automation without adding customer friction. The agenda covers agentic fraud versus agentic commerce, the anatomy of an autonomous retail attack chain, where controls lose context, a journey-centric operating model and a merchant readiness checklist. Speakers are Hugh Steed and Sean McDermott of Darwinium.

Who should attend

Fraud, risk and security teams at ecommerce merchants and the PSPs serving them, especially those preparing for agent-initiated checkout.