Gemini allegedly vouched for Tronify.rent months after a threat feed flagged it as phishing
Investigator JP says Tronify.rent took $69,651 from about 80 crypto users in September and that Google Gemini told one victim the site appeared safe. PhishDestroy had already scored the domain a critical 90/100 threat before that money went to the site.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence40
The GUARD Act, passed by the House on Tuesday, would let five existing Justice Department grant programs pay for the analysts, training and blockchain tracing software that local police say they lack in scam cases.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives40
- Confidence70
The FBI says it is investigating unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov. 404 Media reports the intruders came in through an Oracle PeopleSoft applicant server and then reached a government cloud holding agent data.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 19%
- Operator
- Operator 69%
- Investor
- Investor 12%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives75
- Confidence60
The FBI counted $893 million in AI-linked fraud losses in its first year of tracking them
The bureau's first year of counting AI-flagged complaints puts the losses on consumer money flows, where cheap voice cloning meets instant payment rails and any fix has to live inside the product itself.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence55
FBI logged 22,000 AI-linked fraud complaints in its first year of counting them
The bureau's 2025 total of roughly $893 million comes only from victims who filed and from cases where investigators could identify the AI, and two of its subtotals overlap enough to exceed it. It is a floor.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Keepnet ships a one-tap smishing reporter into an enterprise pipeline built only for email
Verizon's 2026 DBIR puts mobile phishing simulation click rates 40% above email. Most of those attempts never reach a security team, because the report button, the gateway and the triage queue all sit in the inbox.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption9
- Hype gap+37
- Incentives86
- Confidence38
Commission pay moved ransomware target selection from strategists to volume operators
SC Media argues that an affiliate who earns only on collection ranks prospects by how fast a victim must restore, which puts a $50 million manufacturer ahead of a Fortune 500 name on the list.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives52
- Confidence44
FBI counts 30-plus ransomware disruptions this year, and the target is the plumbing
Cynthia Kaiser says infrastructure operations have pushed some crews off US targets entirely. The numbers are the bureau's own, but the cadence is something defenders can plan around.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives71
- Confidence45