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March 11, 2026

Unsung Heroes: Virginia Hall

To continue our Women’s History Month series highlighting female investigators and intelligence agents across the years, we turn next to Virginia Hall, a Maryland native who worked with the United Kingdom's…

March 4, 2026

Unsung Heroes: Kate Warne

As part of Women’s History Month, we here at 221B thought it’d be fitting to take a look back at some of the most successful–and notorious–female spies, detectives and intelligence agents of decades past. To…

February 20, 2026

Building the Right LP Base: How Investor Relations Teams Can Strengthen Investor Vetting

Learn how independent investigations strengthen LP selection, manage reputational risk, and protect long-term fund value.

November 21, 2025

The Cut That Counts: From Retired Pennies to Salami Schemes

Small discrepancies can expose big schemes. During International Fraud Awareness Week—and in the same week the U.S. retired the penny—we examine how salami-slicing tactics, microtransactions and unnoticed…

October 30, 2025

What The Ritual of Halloween Can Teach Us About Cybercrime - Part Five in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

There’s something fitting about Halloween marking the end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Both Halloween and cybercrime revolve around masks, mimicry, and deception — but while one is a ritual of…

October 24, 2025

Protecting Victims at the Intersection of Cyber and Domestic Violence - Part Four in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

October is both Cybersecurity and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and our focus today is on the crucial, yet often overlooked, intersection where abusers weaponize everyday technology, from IoT devices and…

October 17, 2025

Deepfakes, Disinformation and the Death of Trust Online: Part Three in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

In 2025, fraudsters don’t just hack systems — they hack belief. AI-generated faces and voices, fake online personas, and disinformation campaigns are being used in romance scams, business fraud, and even…

October 9, 2025

The “Who” Behind the Website: Part Two in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

As part of our ongoing series tied to Cybersecurity Awareness month, we thought we might highlight a recent case in which our client, a large medical device company, discovered an imposter website had been set…

October 3, 2025

The Unruly March of Technology - Part One in a Five-Part Series on Cybersecurity Awareness and Investigating Cybercrime

Who among my cohort of GenX hasn’t helped an aging parent sort through and unwind a text- or email-based scam of one or another sort - financial, romantic, personal info-based - to which they’ve fallen prey?

June 30, 2025

Digging in the weeds…and the deeds: Property records’ importance in complex investigations

While we aren’t always asked to look into a subject’s history of homeownership, any investigator worth their salt can attest that scrutinizing property and other related records can provide a window into a…

June 13, 2025

A Nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Public perceptions (and misperceptions) of the work investigators do have their roots in depictions spanning literature, film and television. One figure from the genre of detective fiction has come to be a…

April 7, 2025

National Library Week 2025

In case it wasn’t on your calendar, this week is one of 221B’s favorite weeks of the year—National Library Week! Libraries hold a myriad of records, ranging from old newspaper articles to environmental maps to…

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