Dark Side of the Boom: How Scammers Hijacked the AI Revolution by Patrick Coughlin. Hands down, this is one of the absolute must-reads of 2026.
Patrick holds a BS from Georgetown University, and MBA from Stanford University. He is Co-Founder & CEO of Savi Security and previously worked at Cisco and Splunk in Senior Vice President roles.
Make no mistake, the weaponization of artificial intelligence is well underway. This book is a wake up call addressing how adversaries are simply exploiting the AI gold rush. Many of the stories shared have been known across the cybersecurity community. Patrick wraps them all together to tell a very compelling story.
This is simply a must-read for leaders in every field. Don’t stop there, hand it over to your parents and kids, too. Think they’re safe? Think again. The amount of fraud is staggering.
With artificial intelligence it’s no longer a copy and paste email blast. Their AI phishing campaigns will be even more difficult to catch since the dark web is filled with real stolen data fragments. AI driven digital personas now make fraudulent accounts nearly impossible for traditional banking algorithms to spot. Your parents and children will never see it coming.
