# Security Unlocked — Full Content Index > Behavioral cybersecurity insights by Josh Taylor ## Articles ### How AI Agents Are Mapping Your Organization - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/how-ai-agents-are-mapping-your-organization/ - Date: 2025-08-08 - Categories: AI Security, Threat Intelligence - Originally published on: AI Journal (https://aijourn.com/how-ai-agents-are-mapping-your-organization/) - Summary: Explores how autonomous AI agents conduct reconnaissance at machine speed, building comprehensive target profiles from open sources before any traditional attack begins. Examines the shift from manual OSINT to AI-driven profiling and what defenders need to understand about this evolution. ### When Yesterday's Emails Never Happened: The Conversation Hijacking Attack - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/when-yesterdays-emails-never-happened-the-conversation-hijacking-attack/ - Date: 2025-06-17 - Categories: Social Engineering, Behavioral Security - Originally published on: Fortra (https://www.fortra.com/blog/when-yesterdays-emails-never-happened-conversation-hijacking-attack) - Summary: Analyzes a sophisticated social engineering technique where entire email threads are AI-fabricated and inserted into internal communications, bypassing traditional security filters by exploiting authority and process automation rather than technical vulnerabilities. ### The Dual-Edged Sword of AI in Cybersecurity - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/the-dual-edged-sword-of-ai-in-cybersecurity-opportunities-threats-and-the-road-ahead/ - Date: 2025-01-07 - Categories: AI Security, Cyber Strategy - Originally published on: Unite.AI (https://www.unite.ai/the-dual-edged-sword-of-ai-in-cybersecurity-opportunities-threats-and-the-road-ahead/) - Summary: Examines how AI simultaneously raises the ceiling for defenders while lowering the floor for attackers, covering AI-driven zero-day discovery, automated penetration, and hyper-personalized phishing campaigns. ### Evolving Cyber Resilience From Simple Strategies to Complex Organizations - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/evolving-cyber-resilience-from-simple-strategies-to-complex-organizations/ - Date: 2025-01-10 - Categories: Cyber Strategy, Digital Risk - Originally published on: Fortra (https://www.fortra.com/blog/evolving-cyber-resilience) - Summary: Uses biological ecosystem metaphors to explain how organizations can move from fragmented security tooling to interconnected, adaptive cyber resilience frameworks. ### Why Your Desire for Free TV Could Cost You - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/why-your-desire-for-free-tv-could-cost-you/ - Date: 2025-02-04 - Categories: Social Engineering, Digital Risk - Originally published on: Streaming Media (https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=167885) - Summary: Breaks down how cybercriminals exploit the desire for free streaming content through fake CAPTCHA pages, malicious downloads, and ClickFix-style social engineering that turns user impatience into compromise. ### Hack the Hacker's Mind and Revolutionize Cyber Defense - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/hack-the-hackers-mind-and-revolutionize-cyber-defense/ - Date: 2025-01-16 - Categories: Behavioral Security, Cyber Strategy - Originally published on: CTO Club (https://thectoclub.com/it-governance/hack-the-hackers-mind-and-revolutionize-cyber-defense/) - Summary: Introduces Adversarial Cognitive Engineering (ACE) — using psychological principles like the Sunk Cost Fallacy to manipulate attacker behavior, waste their resources, and shift defenders from reactive to proactive postures. ### Scam Yourself Attacks: How Social Engineering Is Evolving - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/scam-yourself-attacks-how-social-engineering-is-evolving/ - Date: 2025-01-21 - Categories: Social Engineering, Behavioral Security - Originally published on: Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/21/scam-yourself-attacks/) - Summary: Examines a new class of social engineering where victims are manipulated into performing the attacker's steps themselves — through fake CAPTCHAs, browser updates, and tech tutorials that exploit routine trust. ### Strategic AI Alliances and the Geopolitics of Today's Internet - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/strategic-ai-alliances-and-the-geopolitics-of-todays-internet/ - Date: 2025-04-21 - Categories: Cyber Strategy, AI Security - Originally published on: AI Journal (https://aijourn.com/strategic-ai-alliances-and-the-geopolitics-of-todays-internet/) - Summary: Explores how AI-driven alliances are fragmenting the internet into cyber blocs, examining the formation of Western and Eastern digital spheres and the implications for enterprises operating across emerging digital fault lines. ### When Confusion Becomes a Weapon: How Cybercriminals Exploit Economic Turmoil - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/when-confusion-becomes-a-weapon-how-cybercriminals-exploit-economic-turmoil/ - Date: 2025-04-23 - Categories: Cyber Strategy, Behavioral Security - Originally published on: Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/23/economic-uncertainty-cybersecurity/) - Summary: Analyzes how economic instability creates fertile ground for social engineering by exploiting heightened stress, cognitive shortcuts, and organizational cost-cutting that weakens security precisely when threats surge. ### Are Hacktivists Going Out of Business? Or Just Out of Style - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/articles/are-hacktivists-going-out-of-business/ - Date: 2026-01-09 - Categories: Cyber Strategy, Threat Intelligence - Originally published on: Infosecurity Magazine (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/are-hacktivists-going-out-of/) - Summary: Examines how hacktivism has been absorbed into the cybercrime economy and repurposed as cover for state-sponsored operations, forcing defenders to rethink threat categorization and attribution. ## Weekly Strategic Briefs ### Trust Is the Attack Surface - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/briefs/trust-is-the-attack-surface/ - Date: 2026-03-17 - Categories: Threat Intelligence, Cyber Strategy - Summary: Analyzes how three major incidents in a single week (Stryker wiper via Intune, GlassWorm Python supply chain compromise, and the XZ Utils pattern resurfacing) all share the same entry point: exploitation of institutional trust rather than technical vulnerabilities. ## Media Mentions ### 2026 Security Predictions: Are You Prepared? - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/mentions/2026-security-predictions-are-you-prepared/ - Date: 2025-12-02 - Outlet: Digital IT News - Source: https://digitalitnews.com/2026-security-predictions-are-you-prepared/ - Summary: Quoted on why enterprises must adopt nation-state-grade defenses as APT groups increasingly target private-sector companies for economic disruption, IP theft, and geopolitically aligned espionage. ### Predicting the Six Biggest Impacts AI Will Have on OT Cybersecurity - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/mentions/ai-impacts-ot-cybersecurity-mbt/ - Date: 2026-01-07 - Outlet: Manufacturing Business Technology - Source: https://www.mbtmag.com/cybersecurity/article/22933652/predicting-the-six-biggest-impacts-ai-will-have-on-ot-cybersecurity - Summary: Quoted on treating AI agents as insider threats, the coming wave of AI liability lawsuits, and the machine identity crisis facing security teams. ### Predicting the Six Biggest Impacts AI Will Have on OT Cybersecurity - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/mentions/ai-impacts-ot-cybersecurity-ien/ - Date: 2026-01-07 - Outlet: Industrial Equipment News - Source: https://www.ien.com/automation/article/22933652/predicting-the-six-biggest-impacts-ai-will-have-on-ot-cybersecurity - Summary: Quoted on treating AI agents as insider threats and the emerging legal liability for autonomous AI decisions in enterprise environments. ### What National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Means in 2025 - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/mentions/cybersecurity-awareness-month-fortra/ - Date: 2025-10-03 - Outlet: Fortra - Source: https://www.fortra.com/blog/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-means-year - Summary: Quoted on why enabling multi-factor authentication remains the single highest-impact action against credential-based attacks. ### US Cybersecurity Efforts for Spacecraft Are Up in the Air - URL: https://securityunlocked.com/mentions/spacecraft-cybersecurity-dark-reading/ - Date: 2025-02-06 - Outlet: Dark Reading - Source: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/us-cybersecurity-spacecraft - Summary: Quoted on the lack of progress in spacecraft cybersecurity standards and why the delay is concerning given supply chain breaches targeting government systems.