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Open-source intelligence gathering

Collection and correlation of publicly available information about targets, historically a specialist and time-intensive craft.

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productOne report1 publisher

Anthropic banned an account that chained Claude into an automated Navy targeting pipeline

Anthropic's misuse report describes public transponder identifiers, commercial imagery and vendor vulnerability research being assembled into targeting handbooks, and says separate missile-software requests from Yemen passed its safeguards.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption55
Hype gap+12
Incentives70
Confidence48
securityOne report1 publisher

To counter voice clones built from a few seconds of scraped audio, experts suggest agreeing on a family safe word

Hiya's March report puts deepfake voice calls at one in four Americans, with 24 percent saying they cannot tell a clone from the real voice. WeLiveSecurity's recommended control is a secret agreed before any call.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives42
Confidence48
scienceOne report1 publisher

Thailand polices its online wildlife trade with a three-person intelligence unit

Social media is where Thailand's illegal animal trade now runs, so the state's Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit spends its days there and its evenings climbing poles for the physical evidence a court warrant requires.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap−10
Incentives50
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Google shipped a prompt box into the satellite tool investigators are trained on

The generative feature inside Google Earth lasted about a day before the outcry pulled it, but the verification checklists that name Google Earth as ground truth were written for a product nobody could prompt.

Publishers:restofworld.org

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption28
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence52
securityOne report1 publisher

Nexus sold access to 153 million genuine US and Canadian driver's licences

Krebs On Security watched the database grow by nearly 400,000 records in one day, matching Nexus's own claim of more than a year of continuous exfiltration from an identity verification company.

Publishers:news.risky.biz

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption68
Hype gap+22
Incentives40
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Iran doubled the hull count in each round of the Gulf tanker exchange

One tally has the exchange running three tankers to six vessels and then five to ten; the IRGC's own statement counts twenty targets, which would make it four for one, and the only price in the material is a headline.

Reality

Evidence22
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives82
Confidence30
securityOne report1 publisher

Machine-speed OSINT erases the cost gap that justified executive-only phishing drills

ESET says AI tooling removes the reconnaissance bottleneck that once kept OSINT for high-value targets. The post carries no actor, no dates and one number, so treat it as an argument about program design rather than a campaign report.

Reality

Evidence29
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives62
Confidence44