For years, auditors at Wirecard signed off on financial statements showing billions of euros in cash that did not exist. Automated reconciliation systems processed the figures. Compliance checks cleared. When it finally collapsed in 2020, €1.9B in cash had simply never existed. Detection systems had access to the data....
Organizations routinely commit significant capital, enter long-term vendor relationships, and expand into new markets based on due diligence processes that have not fundamentally changed in decades. Questionnaires get completed. Documents get reviewed. Boxes get checked. The relationship proceeds. What rarely happens is a genuinely investigative examination of whether what...
Executive impersonation has always relied on trust, but AI has fundamentally changed how that trust is exploited. Email spoofing has evolved into convincing voice clones, real-time video deepfakes, and synthetic identities capable of bypassing the verification habits organizations once considered reliable. In this article, we examine how executive impersonation...
Financial records are often where fraud investigations begin. Unusual transactions, suspicious transfers, undisclosed relationships, or unexplained movements of money can reveal that something is wrong. They show how funds moved, where they went, and how long a scheme may have been operating. What they often cannot do on their own...
Fraud rarely begins when it is discovered. By the time suspicious transactions, compliance alerts, or internal audits bring attention to a case, the activity may have been occurring for months or longer. According to the ACFE's 2024 Report to the Nations, organizations lose an estimated 5% of annual...
Social media platforms remove fake accounts at a scale that is difficult to comprehend. What they cannot do is remove them faster than attackers create them. Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, most of it flowing through impersonation campaigns that...
