FAME: a Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Network for Model Attribution of Face-Swap Deepfakes

The widespread emergence of face-swap Deepfake videos poses growing risks to digital security, privacy, and media integrity, necessitating effective forensic tools for identifying the source of such manipulations. Although most prior research has focused primarily on binary Deepfake detection, th...

GoldPickaxe Trojan steals your face!

Well, the GoldPickaxe Trojan does not literally steal your face, but it does steal an image of your face in order to be able to identify as you. Researchers have found a family of Trojans, attributed to a financially motivated Chinese group, which come in versions for iOS and Android...

From Disinformation to Deep Fakes: How Threat Actors Manipulate Reality

Deep fakes are expected to become a more prominent attack vector. Here's how to identify them. What are Deep Fakes? A deep fake is the act of maliciously replacing real images and videos with fabricated ones to perform information manipulation. To create images, video and audio that are high...

Chinese Face-Swapping App ZAO Sparks Privacy Concerns After Going Crazily Viral

What could be more exciting than seeing yourself starring alongside your favorite actor in a movie, music video, or TV program? Yes, that's possible—well, kind of, by using a new AI-based deepfake app that has gone viral in China over this weekend, climbing to the top of the free apps list in the...

Real Time Face Swap - Base64 encoded String, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Real Time Face Swap published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Face Swap - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Face Swap published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...