Babel Street targets AI-driven threats with new agentic investigation capabilities

2026-05-19T08:51:51Zc4193f43a343cb7675c3a038272af5bd8f24b30406567a90f88f4d0b8386ef64
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What happened

This feed covers multiple security developments: Babel Street launched Insights Investigator to run analyst-directed, agentic AI investigations; iProov released Verified Meetings to detect deepfakes and verify video-call participants; Egnyte introduced Email Capture and AEC-focused AI integrations to reduce data fragmentation. Academic research shows public Instagram posts can be leveraged to generate convincing AI-driven phishing, while earbud accelerometers can be used for continuous heartbeat-based authentication (AccLock). The industry is grappling with sovereign/private AI deployment and,

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