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...
Anti-human trafficking work depends on information that arrives in fragments: a job listing with inconsistent details, a tip phoned to a hotline, a payment record that does not match any registered business. Investigators, NGO analysts and compliance teams rarely receive a finished picture. They receive signals, and what happens...
A false claim about a contaminated product line appears on a niche forum at 2 a.m. By the time a communications team sees it flagged in a morning news digest, it has already moved through three platforms, picked up a coordinated push from a cluster of low-follower accounts,...
A dot on a map of social posts looks like a record of where someone was. Often it is something softer: a tag the author added, a city typed into a profile, a place named in a caption. A geolocation API returns a position estimated from a device or a...
In January 2020, an image of Australia spread across social media, showing a continent dotted with bright orange, apparently a satellite photograph of a country on fire. It was actually a digital visualization of NASA fire-detection data, complete with a glow effect that a real satellite photograph would not...
A procurement team onboarding a new supplier runs the company name through a public records API and gets back three results: two registered companies with nearly identical names, and a court filing against one of them. Every record is real, public, and correctly retrieved. None of them says which company...
During Hurricane Sandy, researchers mapped the sentiment of tweets posted from within the storm's path and found something a simple read-through would have missed: sentiment shifted measurably with distance from the hurricane's center, giving emergency responders a rough proxy for where distress was concentrated in...
