As Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow once observed, every economic transaction involves an element of trust. Today, as transactions are increasingly handled by AI agents, that trust is coming under new pressures. While global trust levels are in decline, the presence of AI agents in our daily lives and business systems...
It’s been a long time since we stopped believing everything we read in the media or on social media. But with the inexorable advancement of gen-AI, we will soon stop believing our own eyes across the online space. While seeing the Hollywood sign on fire may cause a...
In 2024, a scammer used deepfake audio and video to impersonate Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna and attempted to authorize a wire transfer, reportedly tied to an acquisition. Ferrari never confirmed the amount, which rumors placed in the millions of euros. The scheme failed when an executive assistant stopped it by...
Digital media is facing a trust crisis. According to the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, media ranks as the least trusted innovation-driving industry, and only 40% of people trust the news they consume. The World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risks Report even ranked disinformation as the world’s top...
In 2024, a finance employee in Hong Kong transferred $25M after a video call with a deepfake CFO. The attacker? An AI agent trained to impersonate, manipulate, and execute. This wasn’t some anomaly; it was a glimpse into the future—a world where autonomous AI agents are weaponized for...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping cyber operations. What began as basic automation and generative assistance is rapidly evolving into autonomous AI agents, often described as agentic AI systems or deployed within multi-agent architectures. These systems do more than generate content or respond to prompts. They plan objectives, execute multi-step...
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) exists to turn technical security signals into meaningful understanding of who is operating, how attacks evolve, and where real risk persists over time. Modern environments generate massive volumes of alerts and indicators, but detection alone rarely explains intent, coordination, or continuity. Without that context, organizations respond...
Online brand protection has become a critical priority for organizations operating in digital environments. As brands expand across social media platforms, online marketplaces, app stores, and mobile apps, they are increasingly exposed to counterfeit goods, impersonation, and other digital threats that directly impact customer trust and revenue. What once relied...
Open-source intelligence has become a critical part of modern security work. As online footprints expand across social platforms, forums, infrastructures, and public records, organizations rely on OSINT to make informed decisions—from fraud detection and cybersecurity to due diligence, threat monitoring, and corporate protection. This article breaks down how...
Facial recognition has become one of the most powerful analytical capabilities in modern investigations. As digital platforms expand and images circulate across the open web, the ability to identify people in photos has reshaped how OSINT analysts verify identities, expose fake accounts, and connect digital footprints across platforms. In this...
Every position of trust in government, defense, or critical infrastructure begins with verification. Background checks form the backbone of that trust, ensuring that individuals granted access to sensitive data and facilities, or in critical decision-making roles meet strict standards of reliability and integrity. Such checks are essential for safeguarding...
Every investigation starts somewhere, and in open-source intelligence (OSINT), that somewhere is online. And the range of websites that an OSINT practitioner may use can be vast and varied, from social media posts and breach forums to WHOIS registries and archived pages. But correctly channeled, these sites can capture...
In the endless stream of digital communication, every tweet, review, and comment contributes to a massive and chaotic archive of human emotion. Understanding what people think and how strongly they feel was once the domain of surveys and focus groups. Today, artificial intelligence can do it at scale and in...
When people think about iPhone security, they usually imagine theft—someone grabbing the device off a table or slipping it out of a pocket. But in the world of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), the real danger isn’t just losing the phone itself. It’s what can be seen, linked,...
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a core pillar of modern investigations. Yet the success of a given case depends not only on the analyst’s skill but also on the strength and synergy of their tools. If the internet is an ocean of data, the right OSINT toolkit is...
Choosing cyber threat intelligence sources is rarely the hard part. A new feed switches on, the queue fills with thousands of indicators within days, and nobody can say which of them answers a question the team actually has. APIs are one common way to collect source data, and they can...
A profile photo appears under two names. A rental listing uses a picture someone recognizes. A photograph circulates without a clear source. Reverse image search can show where that image appears online and what surrounds it. In open-source intelligence, investigators use these searches to trace image reuse and develop...
On 29 October 2026, attackers took assets from Binance across multiple blockchains, and the FBI attributed a theft of more than $6 billion to North Korea. Binance’s November 3 update described a multi-stage campaign that involved compromised software, fake job interviews and a malicious code repository. Cases like...
An account styled as a retailer’s support channel replies to a customer complaint. It has the right logo, a few hundred followers, and a request to confirm a login code. The warning signs may be easy to spot, but establishing whether the account is legitimate takes more work. For...
Fact-checking tools return results that look like answers: a match, a rating, a timestamp. Each one answers a narrower question than it appears to. A reverse image search shows where a copy appears, a published check shows what an organization concluded, and a metadata field shows what a file...
An online background check starts with a name, an email address, perhaps a phone number, and a web full of results that may or may not belong to the person in question. Searching by hand is slow and uneven: two analysts looking for the same subject can run different queries...
