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U.K. lenders have begun sharing information on suspicious transfers in real time and increasingly analyzing nonfinancial data to stop cybercriminals and others from laundering profits through money-mule accounts, a London-based policy center has found. In an 80-page report, the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, said the more sophisticated investigative techniques and data-sharing methods some banks now deploy could play a key role in tracking down the perpetrators of online intrusions, malware infections and distributed denial-of-service attacks, as well as the networks of third-party accounts they use to move funds. "The use of money-mule accounts is ubiquitous in cybercrime involving...