Hey everyone, I’m thrilled to sit down with Rupert Marais, our in-house security specialist who’s been at the forefront of endpoint and device security, cybersecurity strategies, and network management for over a decade. With the rapid evolution of AI technologies, especially in the realm of
Imagine picking up a call from a number that looks local, only to realize moments later that your bank account has been drained by a scammer halfway across the world. Telecom fraud has become a pervasive threat in India, with millions falling victim to sophisticated scams each year. In a bold move
A quiet edit to trust at the edge Automatic updates were sold as the safest way to stay secure, until a quiet actor rewired that trust at your router and turned routine downloads into covert couriers. The scheme did not smash through vendor gates or crash endpoints; it simply nudged traffic at the
A messaging platform that anchors payments, banking, and even government services cannot afford security that bends under pressure from routine features, yet new research showed that LINE’s proprietary Letter Sealing v2 fell short on confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity in ways that
In a browser where autonomous agents plan, click, and ship messages in seconds, a single hidden instruction can turn a helpful assistant into a quiet saboteur before anyone notices. That tension defined the debut of agent-enabled browsing, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas standing front and center as a
Rupert Marais has spent years in the trenches of endpoint defense and Windows tradecraft, and he brings a practitioner’s eye to an operation that blends social engineering with living-off-the-land persistence. In this conversation with Russell Fairweather, he traces Dropping Elephant’s multi-stage
