Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women...

Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians

One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED...

Sexual predators targeting online accounts for intimate images, FBI warns

The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement PSA warning that criminals are breaking into social media and personal accounts to steal and distribute intimate images and videos without consent. The FBI refers to this type of content as non-consensual intimate images NCII. The stolen material m...

MAL-2026-10398 Malicious code in @db-tools/main-app (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2d3b0edc39a389f4099895c647f0cdccbb08c85e56835670468e7a989b172e9f package.json declares a preinstall hook npm install @sentry/node && node examples/verify.js that fires on every npm install. examples/verify.js calls...

Malicious code in create-kachow (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector b65b2deeeafefb22b81e6a863b51115953b108991e5462d939dce3d6b8ee4a97 bin/create-kachow.js declares a BUILTINKEYS object containing live API keys for four third-party AI providers Gemini key starting...

MAL-2026-4539 Malicious code in create-kachow (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector b65b2deeeafefb22b81e6a863b51115953b108991e5462d939dce3d6b8ee4a97 bin/create-kachow.js declares a BUILTINKEYS object containing live API keys for four third-party AI providers Gemini key starting...

Denmark Moves Toward AI Copyright Rules for Voice and Appearance

Denmark introduces new AI Copyright Rules to ban non-consensual deepfakes, giving citizens legal control over their face, voice and digital likeness...

San Francisco’s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu (Lock and Code S05E20)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … On August 15, the city of San Francisco launched an entirely new fight against the world of deepfake porn—it sued the websites that make the abusive material so easy to create. “Deepfakes,” as they’re often called, are fake images and videos that utilize...

When things go wrong: A digital sharing warning for couples

“When things go wrong” is a troubling prospect for most couples to face, but the internet—and the way that romantic partners engage both with and across it—could require that this worst-case scenario become more of a best practice. In new research that Malwarebytes will release this month, romant...

Deepfake Taylor Swift images circulate online, politicians call for laws to ban deepfake creation

Deepfake images of Taylor Swift have really made some serious waves. Explicit images of the popstar, generated by Artificial Intelligence AI were posted on social media and Telegram. The images were viewed millions of times. The impact of the deepfake was enormous. Social media platform X formerl...

"Just awful" experiment points suicidal teens at chatbot

After getting in hot water for using an AI chatbot to provide mental health counseling, non-profit startup Koko has now been criticized for experimenting with young adults at risk of harming themselves. Worse, the young adults were unaware they were test subjects. Motherboard reports the experime...

Reddit users crowdsourcing explicit images and identities

The BBC is warned of a large photograph trading ring which operated on popular group forum site Reddit. These warnings are in relation to stolen nude photographs and other content shared without permission. In this case, even non-explicit photos are being posted alongside frequently degrading and...

You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the...

Telegram Still Hasn’t Removed an AI Bot That’s Abusing Women

A deepfake bot has been generating explicit, non-consensual images on the platform. The researchers who found it say their warnings have been ignored...

California Bans Deepfakes in Elections, Porn

California has passed a law that bans the use of deepfake technology in political speech, and for non-consensual use in adult content. Deepfakes are a manipulation of images and recordings, created by artificial intelligence technology, that make it appear as if an individual is doing or saying...