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Cyber Fraud Cost Americans $17 Billion in 2025, AI Scams Make List: FBI
Jeffrey Burt | | AI scams, Akira ransomware, BEC scams, cryptocurrency, cyber extortion, cyberscam compounds, FBI, ic3 report, Investment Scams, Qilin, Ransomware, romance scams, sextortion scam
Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...
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African Authorities Arrest 260 Suspects in Romance, Sextortion Scams
Jeffrey Burt | | Africa Cybersecurity, cyberscam compounds, Interpol, romance scams, sextortion scam
Authorities in 14 African countries arrested 260 people, seized 1,235 electronic devices and took down 18 criminal infrastructures in a sprawling Interpol operation aimed at the growing global problem of romance and ...
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Sextortion Scam: 63K Instagram Account In Nigeria Removed
Wajahat Raja | | Cybercrime in Nigeria, Cybersecurity News, Instagram Scam Accounts, Meta Platforms, sextortion scam, Yahoo Boys Cybercrime Group
Meta has recently announced that steps were taken to remove around 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria. According to media reports these accounts were used in financial sextortion scams and some attempted to ...
Pics AND it Didn’t Happen: Sex Deepfake FBI Alert
Richi Jennings | | Adversarial machine learning, AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI and machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Deep Fake, Deep Fakery, Deep fakes, deepfake, deepfake videos, deepfakes, Evil Machine Learning, FBI, machine learning, Machine Learning security, porn, pornography, revenge porn, SB Blogwatch, sex, sextortion, sextortion scam, sextortionist, sexual harassment
Fake Pr0n Hint: Sextortionists stealing your innocent pictures to make AI nudes ...
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Sextortion scam with a twist lures friends into opening malicious attachments
In a peculiar take on the traditional sextortion scam, bad actors have started threatening to distribute stolen nude pics of your friend’s girlfriend. The novel campaign targets the friends of an already ...

