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An O.MG Cable is a USB cable with a hidden Wi-Fi implant that lets another person type commands into the device it is plugged into. I lead the counter-surveillance practice at Southern Recon Agency, and a charging cable is the object clients rarely think to question. Below is how to recognize the risk and what ...

The ePDG service on an Android phone is built-in system software that sets up the encrypted tunnel Wi-Fi Calling uses to reach the carrier. I usually hear about this entry from people who were scrolling their app list because something already felt off. In the phones my team examines, a name in that list settles ...

AI privacy concerns are the risks that artificial intelligence systems collect, infer, expose, or misuse personal information without a person's knowledge or consent. We look at that definition from an investigator's side. A chatbot company holding your chats is one risk. A stranger, an ex-partner, or a scammer pointing AI at details about you that ...

AI fraud prevention for financial institutions is the use of machine learning to score transactions, logins, and identity documents for fraud as they happen. We work the cases that follow those scores. The same phrase also covers a second problem, which is fraud that criminals build with AI, and this guide addresses both for banks ...

The AI cybersecurity trends of 2026 are deepfake impersonation fraud, AI-built software exploits, autonomous attack agents, shadow AI, and delayed regulation. Analysts forecast all five in late 2025. Our Orlando investigators checked six of those forecasts against data the FBI, IBM, and Google have published since. Four are confirmed, one is still early, and one ...

AI and data privacy is the protection of personal information that AI systems collect, store, infer, and train on, including chats, photos, and voice recordings. Our Orlando investigators handle the cases where those details land in the wrong hands, from cloned voices to fake profiles built from stolen photos. We cover what AI tools keep, ...

Synthetic identity fraud is a financial crime that combines real and fake personal information into a new identity used to open accounts and borrow money. The fake person has no owner, but the Social Security number underneath it is often real. It frequently belongs to a child, and the damage stays invisible until that child ...

An encrypted phone is a mobile device that scrambles its stored data or messages so only someone holding the right key can read them. If you own a recent iPhone or Android phone, you already carry one. In my communication security work, the real questions are about the gaps: which messages are protected and what ...

AI-generated cyber attacks are cyber attacks in which artificial intelligence creates or operates part of the attack itself, including the phishing email, the cloned voice, the malware code, or the exploit. Instead of replacing hackers, AI speeds them up and lowers the skill required. The result is fraud and intrusion attempts that are faster, cheaper, ...

AI phishing attacks are phishing scams where criminals use artificial intelligence to write the message, clone a voice, or fake a face. Generative AI produces flawless, personalized emails, texts, and phone calls at scale, stripping out the typos and awkward phrasing that used to give scams away. The tactic is decades old. What changed is ...

AI-generated phishing attacks are fraudulent messages written by artificial intelligence to copy a real person's tone, timing, and context closely enough to pass as legitimate. Stopping them means giving up on spotting bad writing. The defenses that hold up are out-of-band verification of any request involving money or login credentials, phishing-resistant authentication such as FIDO ...

AI and cybersecurity refers to the use of artificial intelligence on both sides of digital defense: attackers use it to automate reconnaissance, clone voices, and generate convincing phishing at scale, while defenders use it to detect anomalies and respond faster. The impact of AI on cybersecurity is speed and volume rather than new categories of ...