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On the record as a cybercrime expert.

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By Matt Aubin, Founder, Southern Recon Agency and E3 Legacy Intel. CDFE, FBCI. Investigating since 2009. Updated .

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Where Matt Aubin has been quoted on cybercrime.

Moneywise · June 2026

AI leaders keep warning their own tech could wreak havoc on jobs, and workers are buying it

Quoted on AI fear and 'doom trolling': “Fear sells AI because fear is the only frame that makes a chatbot feel as important as its creators want it to feel.”

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PRWeb · June 2026

The Product You Bought Last Week May Have Been Stolen the Week Before

Southern Recon's announcement of its organized-retail-crime and counterfeit supply-chain intelligence work, with commentary from founder Matt Aubin.

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Fox 35 Orlando · November 2024

Florida girl, 13, one of hundreds nationwide to receive racist mass-text

Matt Aubin, then Southern Recon Agency's cyber intelligence specialist, broke down how the senders likely sourced the victims' data and the federal penalties they face.

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10 Tampa Bay (WTSP)

Ransomware, data breach insurance costing Florida school districts hundreds of thousands of dollars

On why cybercriminals target school districts, and what the breaches actually cost.

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10 Tampa Bay (WTSP)

FBI offers $15K reward for Florida man wanted on Jan. 6 riot charges

On how fugitives slip off the grid, and how investigators find them anyway.

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The Daily Beast · October 2017

Why You Should Always Assume You're Being Secretly Recorded

On the explosion of hidden-camera recordings, fielding roughly a hundred privacy-invasion inquiries a week.

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ABC Action News (WFTS Tampa Bay) · October 2017

Private investigator receiving 'hundreds' of cases about secret recording devices

On the wave of hidden-camera and secret-recording cases hitting Tampa Bay.

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PRWeb · May 2016

#1 Private Investigator Award for Tampa & Orlando in 2015

Named #1 private investigator for Tampa and Orlando on verified client reviews.

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Also on the record with Spectrum Bay News 9 and Spectrum News 13 Orlando, and featured as the on-camera investigator in the MAC Pictures / Netflix pilot “Trollhunters,” tracking down the attacker who resurfaced a revenge-porn victim's images years after the fact. The pilot was produced and never aired; the credit is on record.

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Ready-to-use bios.

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Matt Aubin is an AI investigation expert and cybercrime specialist, and the founder of Southern Recon Agency and E3 Legacy Intel. Investigating since 2009, he built the AI his own investigation firms run on.

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Matt Aubin is an AI investigation expert and cybercrime specialist, CDFE and FBCI. Founder of Southern Recon Agency and E3 Legacy Intel, investigating since 2009, he built the AI his own investigation firms run on and now advises, builds, and teaches for investigation and security firms and for counsel, and serves on the board of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators.

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Matt Aubin is an AI investigation expert and cybercrime specialist with seventeen years in the field. Founder of Southern Recon Agency and E3 Legacy Intel, he has been investigating since 2009, founded his first firm in 2010 and built it into Southern Recon Agency in 2014, then built E3 Legacy Intel, its cyber division, for wire fraud, cryptocurrency tracing, and unmasking online actors. A Certified Digital Forensics Examiner and one of fewer than fifty Florida Board Certified Investigators, he built the AI his own firms run on live casework, and now advises, builds, audits, trains, and keynotes on AI for investigation and security firms and for counsel. He trained a delegation of Brazilian prosecutors at World Orlando and serves on the FALI board, with casework alongside the FBI, the SEC, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals.

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