“Darwinium helped us quickly identify activity across multiple accounts and user journeys that we hadn’t identified before. This is a great example of Darwinium’s value, enabling traceability and resolution in minutes.”
— Nik Brauer, Software Architect, Udemy

Safeguarding Learning in the Age of AI: Udemy Partners with Darwinium to Strengthen Platform Integrity and Protect Customers from Fraud

Protecting Platform Integrity in the AI Era

As AI reshapes how users interact online, it also introduces new fraud and abuse tactics.

For Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning marketplaces, maintaining platform integrity and customer trust across millions of global users required a smarter approach.

Existing fraud tools offered limited visibility, generic detection, and required manual analysis. Udemy needed a solution that could:

• Detect subtle, AI-driven fraud in real time
• Connect risk signals across the entire customer journey
• Protect legitimate learners and instructors with minimal friction

The Solution

Journey-Wide Fraud and Abuse Detection

Udemy partnered with Darwinium to unify fraud prevention across its digital ecosystem, from account creation to course engagement.

Deployed at the CDN edge, Darwinium provides real-time, AI-powered decisioning across both web and API layers, enabling proactive protection without slowing performance.

Use Cases:

• Blocking mass sign-up attacks and fake accounts
• Detecting automated course downloads and content scraping
• Monitoring post-login purchasing flows for suspicious activity.
• Protecting new products and features as they launch

Key Capabilities Driving Success

• Behavioral Identification: Detects intent and anomalies even when credentials or devices change
• Device and Session Linking: Connects behavior across multiple accounts for complete visibility
• Real-Time Interdiction: Instantly blocks bots and fake sign-ups without disrupting trusted users
• API-Level Protection: Guards backend systems against automated fraud attempts
• No-Code Workflows: Empowers teams to deploy fraud logic without engineering dependency

The Results

Transforming Fraud Detection at Scale

By partnering with Darwinium, Udemy achieved:

• 360° visibility into user behavior across journeys
• Faster fraud response and reduced operational overhead
• Unified risk insights across multiple linked accounts
• Real-time blocking of bots and abusive behavior
• Improved user experience for legitimate learners

Together, Udemy and Darwinium are redefining online learning fraud protection, combining AI fraud prevention with seamless user experiences.