How Dating App Scams Work – When Intimacy Becomes Leverage
How affection becomes a route to manipulation, why blackmail is not always about money, and what can help someone break free. Key takeaways What is a dating app scam? A dating app scam involves using a false identity, bad intentions and misleading behaviour to exploit someone seeking a relationship. A financial romance scam builds apparent […]
The AI Race: Who Gets to Gamble with Humanity’s Future?
In September 2026 Jacob Coxon announced his resignation on X. It came with a warning, ‘The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.’ His Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger added, ‘we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% […]
The Smartest People Are Often Easier to Manipulate
Theme: Intelligence vs emotional vulnerability Core idea: Manipulators rarely target the least intelligent person in the room. They target the person who believes they can spot manipulation. The smartest people are often easier to manipulate. That sounds counterintuitive. We tend to imagine manipulation working on people who are uninformed, inexperienced, or naïve. But in many […]
Why Some Cyberattacks Aim to Ruin Careers, Not Steal Data
The no-loss attack An investigation was carried out. A senior professional stepped aside “pending enquiry”. The leadership role was quietly reassigned, and absence was explained as “internal reasons”. There were no copyrights or IP stolen. There was no customer or internal data leak. Neither a financial loss was announced, nor was there any public breach […]
Most Cyber Incidents Begin as Social Events, Not Technical Ones
The innocent office email exchange It begins inconspicuously, like a normal last-minute adjustment to an earlier calendar invite. Along with it comes a document shared with a note that says, ‘Sharing a doc so we’re aligned.’ Small negotiations that keep the business moving. So far nothing unusual. The recipient responds because it feels reasonable to […]
How Soviet Spy Tech Hacked American Typewriters: The Untold Story Behind Embassy Espionage in Moscow
I write techno-thrillers in the Indian context. Fiction. Now I know that fact is stranger than fiction. Who knows how many fictions have been inspired by facts. Let me talk about a fact here – the story of a Soviet hack that spied on every keystroke in the American embassy in Moscow. Something that can […]