Recruiting and document review own this intrusion path, because the hire really does the job. Huntress found its five 2026 cases in passport photo metadata and in a PiKVM turning up on a new starter's laptop.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
A forum seller wants $600 for what they say are 877,000 EV salary sacrifice driver records, and the 999-row sample published as proof holds up under structural testing in ways a fabricated file usually does not.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives62
- Confidence55
July's intrusions into US water utilities did not need an exploit. They needed a PLC on a cellular modem with nothing in front of it, and CISA's August 21 guidance is an inventory job.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives38
- Confidence55
A compiled timeline of identity-verification failures since 2011 puts nearly half the incidents in the category where what leaked was the face or the document itself.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives71
- Confidence48
Tenable says autonomous agents mapped 21 Taiwanese government systems in four days. The way in was discoverable federation configuration and weak credentials, not a novel exploit.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption54
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives82
- Confidence44
A free 15.5 GB dump holds no passwords and no payment data, but every row carries Google Ad Manager cohort labels that chess.com's public API does not expose.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption46
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62
- Confidence52