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Independent research on hidden data risks, vendor exposure, surveillance-heavy software, and the quiet ways sensitive information leaves professional environments every day.
Privacy Advisories are OccuNX research memos on the software, vendors, integrations, habits, and workflow decisions that create invisible data exposure over time. This is not generic security content. It is targeted, plain-English analysis for organizations that handle sensitive information and need to understand what their tools are actually doing.
A plain-English look at how everyday AI use creates immediate exposure through prompts, uploads, paste habits, and unreviewed workflows.
Targeted analysis for organizations that handle sensitive information and need to understand what their tools are actually doing.
A plain-English look at how everyday AI use creates immediate exposure through prompts, uploads, paste habits, and unreviewed workflows.
Read advisory →Public chat tools are convenient. That does not make them a sane default for sensitive work. This brief explains the difference.
Read advisory →Why most firms are not failing because they do not care, but because modern software stacks hide the real data path.
Read advisory →Secure-looking portals often create a false sense of safety. This report focuses on what to look at behind the interface.
Read advisory →Even when the office environment is locked down, phones and mobile apps can keep shoveling metadata into third-party systems.
Read advisory →Convenience has a habit of becoming policy by accident. This brief shows how small shortcuts quietly reshape firm-wide risk.
Read advisory →OccuNX helps firms identify where data exposure actually happens across vendors, devices, software, and workflow decisions — then turns that into a practical fix plan.
Quarterly breach intelligence filtered for law firms, CPA practices & wealth managers
AI-generated spear phishing crossed the human-detection threshold in Q1, tax season became a structured attack window, and the SEC issued its first enforcement actions under amended cybersecurity rules — targeting RIAs not for breaches, but for missing documentation.
Firms adopted AI drafting and research tools without data processing agreements, creating undisclosed subprocessor exposure. Cloud consolidation expanded vendor chains faster than review processes could track.
BEC and credential-stuffing campaigns reached record levels. Law firm and CPA email infrastructure targeted disproportionately relative to firm size. MFA fatigue and session token theft emerged as primary entry vectors.
OAuth tokens, SaaS integrations, and trusted vendor relationships replaced direct network attacks as the dominant breach vector. Professional services attacks up 39% YoY and 162% over five years.
Third-party vendor compromise doubled as a share of all breaches. Wealth managers targeted by name. A CPA firm paid $60K for an 18-month notification delay. The subprocessor problem reached enforcement stage.