--- title: Our Human-Shaped Blind Spot | daily.dev description: Threat intelligence has a structural blind spot: it organizes defenses around adversary types (cybercriminals, harassers, nation-states) rather than the human... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/our-human-shaped-blind-spot-uwygzv9q2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Our Human-Shaped Blind Spot | daily.dev og:description: Threat intelligence has a structural blind spot: it organizes defenses around adversary types (cybercriminals, harassers, nation-states) rather than the human... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/our-human-shaped-blind-spot-uwygzv9q2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UWygzV9Q2.png og:image:alt: Our Human-Shaped Blind Spot og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Our Human-Shaped Blind Spot **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Threat intelligence has a structural blind spot: it organizes defenses around adversary types (cybercriminals, harassers, nation-states) rather than the human vulnerabilities those adversaries exploit. A personal experience with email bombing—used simultaneously as a harassment tactic and a fraud cover-up—illustrates how the same cognitive overload mechanism underlies attacks across completely different threat domains. Platform trust and safety teams and fraud/security teams rarely communicate despite solving fundamentally similar problems. The argument is that threat intelligence should be reorganized around human vulnerabilities rather than attacker categories, enabling analysts to cross-pollinate insights between harassment research, financial crime, extremism, and influence operations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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