New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA – August 6th, 2025 – Blackbird.AI, the leader in AI-driven narrative intelligence and Security Risk Advisors (SRA), the leader in upgrading humans, security processes, and tech stack for the agentive AI world, today announced a partnership to protect organizations from narrative attacks created by misinformation, disinformation, and deepfakes. This new threat vector has emerged quickly as a top priority for cybersecurity leaders, as Gartner predicts that by 2028, enterprise spending on battling malinformation will surpass $30 billion, cannibalizing 10% of marketing and cybersecurity budgets to combat a multi-front threat.
A narrative attack can be defined as ‘Any assertion that shapes perception about a person, place or thing in the information ecosystem that can cause harm.’ When manipulated narratives drive executive action, market movement, or customer panic, the damage rivals a data breach and is often harder to detect or reverse.
“Narrative attacks are digital manipulations and precision exploits of trust targeting institutions, sectors, and entire economies. Like a sophisticated phishing email, narrative attacks are designed to bypass both human and legacy technology filters by appearing legitimate,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “Through this partnership with SRA, we will accelerate our ability to reach and protect more organizations and their executives around the globe in this growing threat vector.”
Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform provides actionable and in-depth insights into the new threat vector of narrative attacks, including the:
- Narratives targeting executives and organizations
- Influence behind narratives, including threat actors, influencer organizations, and nation states
- Contagion-like spread of narratives across networks
- Bot-like behavior that scales narratives
- Cohorts and communities that connect and amplify with narratives
These previously unseen signals enable organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making.
“As a trusted cybersecurity partner, our clients turn to us when emerging threats surface. Recommending the right solutions is critical to maintaining that trust. This is why our collaboration with Blackbird.AI is so important”, said Joe Cicero, Director of Strategic Alliances, SRA.
Security Risk Advisors engages Blackbird.AI to support clients who need deeper visibility into the narrative intelligence threat landscape. For several of our managed security clients, Blackbird.AI’s AI-powered analysis has uncovered risks emerging across social and alternative media channels not typically captured by endpoint agents or traditional OSINT. This collaboration allows SRA’s customers to illuminate narratives, influence campaigns, and other threats that fall outside the scope of conventional log analysis and threat intel feeds.
About Blackbird.AI
Blackbird.AI protects organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial, operational, and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that target your company, the threat actors behind them, the networks they engage with, the bot behavior that amplifies them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. To learn more, visit Blackbird.AI
About Security Risk Advisors
Security Risk Advisors offers Purple and Red Teams, Cloud Security, Penetration Testing, OT Security, and 24x7x365 Cybersecurity Operations. Based in Philadelphia, SRA operates across the USA, Ireland, and Australia. Learn more at https://sra.io.
For more information, please contact:
Blackbird.AI Media Contact: Dan Patterson | Sr Director, Comms and Content | dpatterson@blackbird.ai
SRA Media Contact: Kimberly Sandberg | info@sra.io