John O’Connell was featured in this article from InvestmentNews, where he discussed the implications of Anthropic’s recent accidental Claude code leak, urging advisors to question tech partners about their source‑code hygiene, monitoring practices, and notification protocols to ensure protection against similar AI‑related threats.
In this insightful webinar, John O'Connell and Tim O'Connell delve into AI-enhanced phishing attacks, discussing how major financial institutions have recently fallen victim to sophisticated attacks. AI is making phishing attacks so convincing that even trained employees can't tell the difference between legitimate and malicious communications.
John O'Connell wrote this bylined article in Financial Planning Magazine, sharing how wealth management firms can protect against AI-enhanced audio deepfakes. In today's landscape, every unverified call is now an open channel for an audio deepfake and cybercrime.
John O'Connell wrote this bylined article published in Advisor Perspectives by VettaFi, sharing how wealth management firms can protect against AI-enhanced audio deepfakes. He discusses hypothetical and real-world scenarios and provides a Deepfake-Resilience Checklist.
In our latest Peaks Perspective article, discover how audio deepfakes endanger wealth management firms, including what exactly is an audio deepfake, why wealth firms are prime targets, how to move from familiarity to verification, and more. Plus, access an in-depth deepfake-resilience checklist that serves as a practical framework to protect clients, staff, and the...
John O’Connell authored this article in ThinkAdvisor, where he delivers a critical message for the wealth management community: the recent Salesforce data breach, affecting up to one billion records, exposes the growing fragility of data security across the financial services ecosystem.
John O’Connell authored this article for Wealth Solutions Report, discussing how UHNW clients face a sophisticated and ever-changing array of scams due to the increased sophistication of bad actors.
John O'Connell was quoted in this article from Citywire discussing the challenges facing RIAs in terms of cybersecurity, noting that "The preparedness of the RIA space for cybersecurity is woefully inadequate." He also highlights the issues he sees in several core areas.
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John O'Connell authored this article for Retirement Daily on TheStreet, where he discusses how scammers target retirees on social media with "pump and dump" schemes. The article examines how these schemes work, and the techniques cybercriminals use to execute them.
