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...
Brand protection used to mean trademark registration, domain monitoring, and the occasional cease-and-desist letter. Those concerns have not disappeared, but they now represent the smallest and most visible layer of a problem that has grown considerably more complex. The FTC reported $2.95 billion in losses from impersonation...
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...
