ID-Eraser: Proactive Defense against Face Swapping Via Identity Perturbation

Deepfake technologies have rapidly advanced with modern generative AI, and face swapping in particular poses serious threats to privacy and digital security. Existing proactive defenses mostly rely on pixel-level perturbations, which are ineffective against contemporary swapping models that extra...

Tudou Guarantee Marketplace Halts Telegram Transactions After Processing Over $12 Billion

A Telegram-based guarantee marketplace known for advertising a broad range of illicit services appears to be winding down its operations, according to new findings from Elliptic. The blockchain intelligence company said Tudou Guarantee has effectively ceased transactions through its public Telegr...

Spotting Tell-Tale Visual Artifacts in Face Swapping Videos: Strengths and Pitfalls of CNN Detectors

Face swapping manipulations in video streams represents an increasing threat in remote video communications, due to advances in automated and real-time tools. Recent literature proposes to characterize and exploit visual artifacts introduced in video frames by swapping algorithms when dealing wit...

The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived

Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams...

DeepFaceLab Code Issues Vulnerabilities

DeepFaceLab is a leading software for video face swapping by iperov individual developers. DeepFaceLab has a code issue vulnerability that stems from the file mainscripts/Util.py that causes deserialization...

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...