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Field notes from the donation-fraud trenches.
Long-form pieces on donor fraud, nonprofit-tech operations, donation-platform security, accessibility, and how charities are using Cause Shield to protect their fundraising infrastructure.
The ACSC just flagged Wordpress attacks that end at your donation form. Three things to check this week.
Jul 14, 2026Two recent ACSC advisories describe an active exploitation campaign against Wordpress and other CMS platforms, with compromised legitimate Australian websites already delivering malware to visitors. Charity donation forms are the highest value target on any charity website. Here is what to check this week, in fifteen minutes.
Cause Shield·6 min read·wordpress, cyber security, charity security, donation form security, ACSC advisory, CMS vulnerabilities, incident response, nonprofit fundraisingMost charities can't segment their donor base weekly. We built Atlas to fix that.
Jun 10, 2026The cohort report should be a thing you check daily, not a quarterly project that needs SQL and an analyst. Atlas runs every night across nine dimensions, refreshes the numbers, narrates what changed, and lands the biggest mover in your morning digest. Here is how it works.
Cause Shield·5 min read·atlas, donor segmentation, cohort analysis, supporter analytics, product launch, partner planCard-testing attacks on donation forms: how to spot one in five minutes
Jun 4, 2026Card-testing attacks target charity donation forms because they're an easy mark. Here are the five fingerprints to check for in the next five minutes and what to do if you spot one.
Cause Shield·8 min read·card testing, donation fraud, fraud detection, nonprofit security, stripeWhy we built Cause Shield
May 24, 2026The story behind Cause Shield — why charities run serious infrastructure with almost no way to see what's going wrong, and why we built one platform to monitor it, alert on it, and make sense of it all.
Cause Shield·6 min read·donation monitoring, nonprofit security, fraud detection, supporter retention, accessibility