Looking back at 2025, one thing stands out to me: trust has quietly become the bottleneck in modern communication. We have made real progress in digital identity and security on the web, yet voice still relies on assumptions that belong to another era. At the same time, AI and modern,
What is spoofing Spoofing is a scam. Through spoofing, criminals pretend to be employees of an existing organization to create trust so that a victim cooperates. Spoofing is done via e-mail, telephone or, for example, via SMS. The goal of the criminals is often to obtain personal information, steal money
“Spoofing, specifically caller ID spoofing, drives financial fraud and enables social engineering cams, resulting in substantial economic and societal damage, with an estimated EUR 850 million lost worldwide annually”. So opens Europol in it’s publication on caller id spoofing from October 2025 (see link at the bottom of this