Current threat reporting, field intelligence, and analysis from our operations teams. Real insights on what we're seeing in the field, not sanitized corporate briefings.
A vendor can clear every item on a due diligence checklist and still be the wrong company to let near your executives. Due diligence answers a procurement question. It was never built to answer the intelligence one. Here is the difference, and the six signals that tell you a relationship needs a dee...
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A vendor that passed review six weeks ago can be a different risk today. Ownership changes, staff turnover, subcontractor additions, and credential drift happen after the questionnaire is filed. This article explains what to watch for and why counter-intelligence thinking has to follow the vendor in...
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Cargo theft losses rose 60% in 2025 to nearly $725 million, but the number of incidents barely changed. The freight didn't get easier to steal. The identities inside the freight system got easier to impersonate. That is not a logistics problem. It is a supply chain risk intelligence problem.
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Most third-party risk programs evaluate whether a vendor can produce documentation of controls. That is not the same as evaluating whether they can compromise your environment. The Trivy supply chain attack, the April AiTM campaign, and APT28's edge-device operations all exploited relationships that...
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A public records search is foundational. It is also a ceiling. Beneficial ownership opacity, credential fraud, and synthetic identities all return a clean file on paper, which is exactly why investigations stop too early and decisions go wrong. Here is what the record cannot tell you, and why due di...
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A public records search is the cheapest piece of an investigation and often the most decisive. The records are sitting there in court dockets, secretary of state filings, UCC indexes, and regulatory archives. Anyone can pull them. Most people don't, or pull the wrong ones, or pull the right ones and...
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Most organizations think an early warning system is software that pings security when something crosses a threshold. That's monitoring. Warning is what the data means after a trained team interprets it. This article breaks down what early warning systems actually detect, how behavioral analysis unde...
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Most threats do not begin with the incident. They begin with a pattern. Behavioral analysis is the discipline of reading those patterns early enough to matter. Here is how risk scoring and early warning systems actually work when they are built to prevent harm instead of document it.
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Most organizations treat risk scoring like a filing system. A number gets assigned, a folder gets created, and the file sits there until something happens. That's not risk scoring. That's documentation. Real risk scoring tracks movement, the acceleration between warning behaviors that separates a gr...
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In 2024, the FBI processed over 533,000 missing person reports. More than 93,000 remained active by year's end. Location analysis takes fragmented cell phone data, GPS records, financial transactions, and digital traces and turns them into a coherent picture of where someone went, when they went the...
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Most organizations think of geospatial intelligence as a government capability. The version that matters is operational — the ability to turn spatial data into a decision before someone gets on a plane. This article breaks down how satellite imagery analysis, geospatial correlation, and remote sensi...
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Most organizations hear 'threat assessment' and think of a checklist someone fills out after an incident. That is not a threat assessment. That is paperwork masquerading as prevention. Here's what the process actually looks like, why behavioral analysis is the foundation, and how early warning syste...
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Most organizations think they know what a red team does. They picture hackers running exploits against firewalls. That mental model is wrong. Red team services don't test whether your systems have vulnerabilities. They test whether your organization, the people, the processes, the monitoring, would ...
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Most workplace investigations start too late. By the time an organization launches a formal inquiry, the misconduct has already spread, evidence has been compromised, and witnesses have stopped cooperating. The warning signs were there months earlier. This article breaks down the behavioral and dig...
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Most people hear "environmental monitoring" and picture a scientist in waders collecting water samples. Environmental intelligence is what happens when you apply the same tradecraft used in corporate investigations and security operations to ecological problems — satellite imagery, sensor networks, ...
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A background check tells you whether someone has a criminal record in the counties you searched. Corporate intelligence tells you whether the person sitting across the table is who they say they are, whether their company is what it claims to be, and whether the deal in front of you is worth the pap...
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In February 2025, hackers drained $1.5 billion from Bybit. Within 48 hours, blockchain investigators attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group. The same forensic infrastructure that enabled that attribution is available for corporate fraud cases, embezzlement investigations, and regulator...
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Most people hear "intelligence agency" and think of government acronyms. A private intelligence agency operates in the same domain but answers a different question entirely — not "what threatens the nation?" but "what threatens your organization, your transaction, your people?"
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Most organizations order a penetration test when what they actually need is to know whether anyone would notice a real attack. Pen tests and red team engagements answer fundamentally different questions, and confusing them costs time, money, and false confidence.
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Most organizations treat identity verification as a checkbox. It isn't. These services confirm a document is real and the face matches, but they don't touch employment history, credentials, criminal records, or corporate affiliations. Here's what's actually being validated, and where a deeper proces...
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Most organizations find out they needed digital forensics about three weeks after they actually needed it. This article breaks down what the forensic investigation process actually looks like, from evidence preservation and chain of custody to analysis, reporting, and court preparation, and why the ...
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A breakdown of what a corporate investigation covers, including evidence collection, financial tracing, interview protocols, and legally defensible reporting.
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Biometric breaches keep happening. Compliance programs keep existing. At some point, the gap between the two becomes a question of accountability.
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New York's first-in-nation water and wastewater cybersecurity regulations take effect January 1, 2027, what utilities must do and what the $2.5M SECURE grant covers.
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Kids Digital Safety Act explained: what KOSA requires, why lawmakers and civil liberties groups are divided, and how it could change social media safety rules for minors.
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Claude Code Security launch wipes $15B from cybersecurity stocks. We analyze the AI selloff, Anthropic’s dropped safety pledge, and what it means for DevSecOps.
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Discord’s mandatory age verification sparks backlash after data breach concerns. We examine biometric ID risks, privacy fears, and trust issues around Discord age verification policies.
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Odido data breach 2026 exposed 6.2M customer records in a CRM system attack. Learn what data was stolen, GDPR risks, and key security lessons for telecom leaders.
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Project South reveals 8 Toronto officers charged for bribery and database leaks to crime networks, exposing insider threats and crime network ties.
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Dutch police arrested the 21-year-old behind JokerOTP, a phishing bot that bypassed MFA by intercepting OTPs. Learn how it worked and its security impact.
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CISA BOD 26-02 mandates 12 months to remove unsupported edge devices. Get the detailed compliance checklist, timelines, and nation-state exploit risks.
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Deepfake nudes are exploding on Telegram and nudify apps, driving identity abuse and severe trauma. New 2025 laws & detection tools aim to limit harm.
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Dating app breaches in 2026 exposed over 10M users after vishing attacks on Match Group and a Bumble contractor, revealing serious identity theft and privacy risks.
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Identity & Enterprise verification with adaptive threat intelligence. Detect AI-generated fraud, verify documents globally, and counterattack threats with Owl Eyes.
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CISA confirms active exploitation of VMware vCenter CVE-2024-37079. Why patching isn’t enough, how attacks chain to ESXi, and how to detect compromise today.
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Fortinet's FortiCloud SSO vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) is actively exploited. New attack path bypasses December patches. Over 11,000 devices at risk.
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An employee from a licensed healthcare provider exposed sensitive data of 303,965 Minnesota residents through the MnCHOICES system.
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RedVDS powered $40M+ global email fraud. Learn how the cybercrime platform operated, why it was lethal, and proven defenses against BEC and payment diversion.
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CNIL fined Free Mobile and Free €42M after a 2024 breach exposed data of 24M subscribers, highlighting MFA gaps, delayed breach notification, and retention.
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A UK high school cyberattack forced closure after ransomware crippled IT systems, showing why schools are targeted and how to prevent and respond to attacks.
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Somalia’s UN envoy faces scrutiny after U.S. officials linked him to an Ohio health agency convicted of Medicaid fraud, exposing hidden networks and failures.
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The UK Post Office Horizon scandal shows how broken evidence integrity, falsified audit trails, and hidden software defects led to 900+ wrongful convictions.
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Google is finally allowing Gmail users to change their email address without losing data. A long-requested shift that brings flexibility, limits, and new identity risks.
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MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) leaks MongoDB memory without authentication, exposing user data. A patch, secret rotation, and access controls are now critical.
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Aflac’s breach exposed 22M full identity profiles that may enable hiring fraud. Traditional background checks can’t confirm true identity, raising new risks.
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The $100K H-1B fee and stricter audits make hiring costly, but identity verification now dominates the process, shaping who companies can sponsor.
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Two major fintech breaches at Prosper and 700Credit exposed data of nearly 20 million Americans, highlighting identity theft,, and limits of credit monitoring.
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Google will shut down Dark Web Report in 2026, ending free breach monitoring. Here’s why it’s happening, what users lose, and how to stay protected.
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US authorities mandate a 5-year social media audit for travelers. The US to expand ESTA screening impacts privacy, requiring 5-year social media history.
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A 19-year-old hacker breached 64 million records using basic cloud flaws. The case shows how misconfigurations fuel youth cybercrime and why early detection matters.
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