FBI warns that sextortionists are creating explicit deepfakes from people's social media images

The usual sextortion attack involves a malicious actor threatening to leak explicit images/videos of a target, sometimes to friends and family, unless they receive a sum of money. Criminals might have obtained the material by hacking a victim, and there are times when the person making the threat doesn't actually...

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