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AI or I-Spy?

Feb 12, 2026
Simon Horswell, Senior Fraud Specialist at Entrust who tracks romance scams, explains how scammers groom targets and move conversations off-platform. He discusses love bombing, rapid relationship escalation, and varied timelines for money requests. Also covered: how fun filter trends and stolen data help phishers and fuel evolving fraud tactics.
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INSIGHT

LLMs Accelerate Nation-State Targeting

  • Nation-state actors used large language models like Gemini to scale reconnaissance and speed malware development.
  • Google observed China, Iran, and North Korea leveraging Gemini for profiling, lures, and code generation.
INSIGHT

Rusty Rocket Enables Long-Term Stealth Exfiltration

  • WorldLeaks deployed Rusty Rocket, a Rust-based tool enabling stealthy exfiltration and encrypted proxying on Windows and Linux.
  • Its obfuscated tunnels blend with legitimate traffic and require pre-encrypted runtime config, complicating detection.
INSIGHT

Healthcare Breach Exposes Extensive PHI

  • A breach at ApolloMD exposed over 626,000 individuals' PII and health records from a May 2025 incident.
  • Affected data included names, birthdates, diagnoses, insurance, and sometimes social security numbers.
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