What do European fintech and Romania’s elections have in common?

A quiet shift in infrastructure-level persuasion. Not bots. Not troll farms. Something cleaner, faster — and harder to attribute.

Today dear Farida Khalaf and I are publishing a collab on the Cyborg system: a toolkit built for political combat, already stress-tested in Europe, and now drifting into a wider threat surface — fintech, payments, and frankly any business that runs on trust, onboarding, and reputation.

This is the sequel to my “next-gen cyberthreats” thread. The era where AI doesn’t just generate noise. It engineers vulnerability.

Out today.