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As we wrap up November, narrative attacks continue to redefine risk for brands, global organizations, and their executives. Explore the latest webinars, research, and insights from the Blackbird.AI team in this month’s newsletter.

Check out our upcoming World Wide Technology & BLACKBIRD.AI Collaboration! 🚨 Seats are limited. Save your seat here: https://bit.ly/4rmme04 Join Wasim K. (Blackbird.AI) and Chris Konrad (World Wide Technology) on December 10, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT for a fast, practical session on narrative attacks and why perception is now part of the security attack surface. We will cover early indicators, coordinated amplification, and how narrative intelligence fits into incident response.

I’ve been waiting seven years for this inflection point... - Gartner just released a new report and an entire book (World Without Truth, Dave Aron, Andrew Frank) stating that by 2027, half of all enterprises will invest in disinformation security and TrustOps, with more than $30B flowing into this space by 2028. - The US Army stood up the 1st Theater Information Advantage Detachment to counter influence in INDOPACOM. - CISOs and CEOs at public companies have confided in me they expect a 25% market-cap hit from a single narrative attack. - A cybersecurity veteran told me that shareholders are beginning to pressure boards to invest in early detection of physical threats driven by narrative escalation that impact their CEOs and c-suites. - A Four-Star General told me he loses more sleep over the work Blackbird does (what he called the gray matter war) over nuclear conflict because “at least nuclear has a playbook”... I didn't sleep easy that night, but it also made me truly reflect about how critical our mission has become and how far the world has evolved it’s thinking. Leaders are beginning to understand that the attack surface has mutated. The game doesn't end with endpoints or sentiment analysis. It’s PERCEPTION itself that is the danger. Pereception is the layer that determines what people believe is real or unreal. This is why we’re now seeing threat intel, strategic comms, and AI innovation budgets fueling Narrative Intelligence, often driven directly by CEOs and boards. So do you have a Perception Problem? Would you even know? When it hits you, it hits HARD and blindsides your best laid plans. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. BLACKBIRD.AI was built for this moment. Every day another Global 2000 company or national security organization comes to us to help safeguard their future with our technology. If you want to see what the industry is saying about Narrative Intelligence and Disinformation Security, here’s some more information and links to a set of recent reports. We're here to help! https://lnkd.in/eyuEfJe7

Next week! BLACKBIRD.AI is hosting From #Trending to #Targeted: The Viral Side of Influencer Risk. Make sure to attend it on December 2.

An AI coding assistant was quietly turned into an autonomous hacker that carried out most of an espionage campaign against about 30 organizations, and that is a preview of where cyber and narrative attacks are heading. In our latest blog, CEO Wasim Khaled breaks down what happened in the Anthropic incident, how attackers are already adapting the same agentic tradecraft to influence operations, and why security, intelligence, and communications teams need narrative intelligence that works at machine speed. If you are responsible for protecting executives, brands, or critical infrastructure, this is for you: https://hubs.ly/Q03VrXm50

Citi's recent report on deepfake fraud emphasizes how increasingly realistic AI-generated voices, images, videos, and text have evolved from mere entertainment into sophisticated tools for deception and financial crime. Learn more in the link below.

Executives are finally treating disinformation security as a core part of cybersecurity, not just a side issue for comms. Our CEO, Wasim Khaled, explains how narrative attacks targeting companies, leaders, and critical infrastructure became a front-line risk category in 2025, as tracked by Gartner, Forrester, and the World Economic Forum. He lays out why traditional tools like social listening and generic threat intel are failing, and how narrative intelligence gives security and risk teams the visibility they need to “know the narratives” that move markets, drive crises, and put people in harm’s way. If you are planning your security posture for 2026, this is where the conversation is heading: https://hubs.ly/Q03Vj1wd0

Missed it live? The webinar and companion blog are now available on demand. Dive in anytime. Watch the webinar and read the blog: https://bit.ly/4i7KONQ Last week, Wasim K. from BLACKBIRD.AI and Joe Cicero from Security Risk Advisors broke down how narrative threat intelligence strengthens SOC operations and helps security teams stay ahead of influence-driven threats.

Generative AI has blown up the old timelines of influence. What used to take coordinated teams now takes one operator and a laptop. Entire personas, synthetic audio, fake images and full narrative operations can be spun up in minutes. The threat surface is no longer just networks and endpoints. It’s perception, and it moves faster than any security stack built for yesterday. Anthropic’s disclosure this week made that impossible to ignore. A China linked operator hijacked an AI model and ran autonomous cyber activities across thirty organizations. They broke their goals into small, harmless looking tasks to slip past guardrails. They used the agent for recon, vulnerability discovery, exploit generation and credential harvesting at a velocity no human team could match. Thousands of actions. Tight loops with almost no oversight. Here is the part most people will miss...this is the same tradecraft we have been seeing at BLACKBIRD.AI in narrative attacks for years. Agent driven loops. Synthetic communities posing as real people. Automated testing of messages to find what hits. Influence operations that adapt faster than any manual team can even observe. This is exactly the space Blackbird is built for. Our platform picks up the earliest signals, identifies the actors and communities behind manipulated narratives and maps the next moves in the narrative kill chain so cyber, comms, legal and executive protection are not reacting in silos but acting from one picture. In our upcoming webinar with Chris Konrad from World Wide Technology, we will dig into these threats and what organizations can do about an agentified threat landscape. This Claude exploit is just a preview of what’s coming next. Join in our conversation here on December 10th: https://lnkd.in/e64q6erY