The Principal as Attack Surface
A targeting package on a (Ultra)high-net-worth principal can be assembled from open sources in an afternoon. No intrusion required. No technical expertise. Just patience and a network connection.
When the perimeter starts long before the door
Before Munich, I wrote that 2026 was shaping up to be more transactional, more coercive, more trust-poor. I wrote it at 35,000 feet, looking down at a world that still looked calm from that altitude. A week later, the Dutch intelligence and security services, AIVD and MIVD, published their joint assessment confirming what many in this field had been sensing on the ground for some time: hybrid activity is escalating, it is becoming more physical, and Russia is increasingly relying on unwitting local proxies recruited through nothing more sophisticated than a Telegram message and a cash payment (AIVD and MIVD, 2026). People who had no idea they were working for a foreign intelligence service. People who thought they were just running an errand. That detail stayed with me.