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Threat of the day: Quishing - the QR-code phishing wave is back, and harder to spot
QR-code phishing was supposed to die in 2024. It is back in April 2026, with a smarter delivery vector. Today's threat brief.
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Deepfake Detection
Identifying and exposing AI-generated fakes
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Investigation #2: Following the clone-shop money - wallet clusters and escrow contracts
Promised in Investigation #1: a wallet-by-wallet trace of the clone-shop economy. Here is the cluster map and the three escrow contracts that handle the majorit…
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Investigation #1: Inside the clone-shop economy - how AI face-cloning became a service
A four-week trace of the marketplaces, escrow rails, and Telegram brokers that have turned AI face-cloning into an off-the-shelf service. Part one of a recurrin…
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Election Deepfakes and Prediction Markets: The New Information Warfare Battlefield
Deepfake videos are moving prediction market prices and corrupting elections simultaneously. Inside the feedback loop between synthetic media and market manipul…
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The Face Swap Factory: How Industrial-Scale Deepfake Scams Are Rewriting the Rules of Fraud
Scam compounds hire "AI models" for live deepfake video calls. With $12.5B lost to AI fraud in 2025, digital deception has gone fully corporate.
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The Anatomy of a Deepfake: How AI-Generated Media Threatens Trust
Deepfake technology has evolved from crude face-swaps to near-undetectable AI-generated video and audio, creating an unprecedented crisis of trust in digital me…