Three men arrested over AI executive and lawyer impersonation fraud
Prosecutors say the scheme took more than $129 million from companies worldwide between 2024 and 2026.
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rPPG deepfake detectors track high-frequency artifacts, not pulse
Chrominance traces hit AUC 0.998 on talking-face forgeries, and Celeb-DF splits leak identities into the test set.
Trio accused of using deepfake CEOs and bogus lawyers to scam businesses out of $129 million
The indictment details how three men used deepfakes to impersonate CEOs and lawyers to wire $129 million in fraud.
UltraGuard watermarks face videos in real time using ultrasound biometrics
Smartphone ultrasound and video motion are fused into watermarks meant to survive forgery and editing.
Jeff Bezos and Jason Statham hair transplant photos are fake
AI-edited images of bald celebrities show no swelling or realistic donor hair, debunked via reverse image search.
Column says phishing drills still test yesterday's lures
The author urges measuring reporting speed and response, not only click rates, as AI-written lures improve.
Mundane AI apps hide sexual deepfake tools, WIRED finds
Researchers tie more than 400 apps and domains to ads on Meta, with over 350,000 Play Store downloads.
Federated deepfake Grad-CAM faithfulness collapses at extreme heterogeneity
An EfficientNet-B4 on FaceForensics++ matches a centralized baseline until client data is extremely non-IID, when explanations turn misleading.
UK MP Jess Asato sues xAI over non-consensual Grok deepfakes
She says X repeatedly dismissed reports of sexualized images, including one that appeared to depict a sexual assault.
Venus-DefakerOne2 reports new scores across image, video and spoof forensics
Authors report 96.7% on DeepFake faces and 96.0% on AI-generated videos after training on tens of millions of samples.
Anonymous AI Halloween video sites collect personal photos
Malwarebytes found no malware or phishing, but unnamed operators may send uploads to outside AI providers.
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TransUnion says most digital fraud hits after accounts exist
The firm says account login was 53% of suspected digital fraud in the first half of 2026.
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AV-FABLE benchmarks sparse audio-visual manipulations in long videos
Zero-shot audio-visual language models are near chance, while separated readouts of frozen features lead localization.
WildFakeToolBench tests AI image detectors against web-sourced tools
On 105 images, the strongest of 156 tools reached 25.25% to 100% attack success against six detectors.
MIG-COW fools deepfake detectors in white-box tests
On AADD-2025, the method reports 99.96% white-box success but only 7.16% against official black-box targets.
Man travels 2,000 km in Brazil to meet an AI-generated woman
He sold belongings to fund the bus trip; police have not established that a crime occurred.
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Florida police say scammers cloned a sheriff’s voice
Osceola County officials told local news a resident received a voicemail using Sheriff Steve Moser’s cloned voice and picture.
Underground sellers package fake IDs and deepfakes for KYC
The OnlyFake operator pleaded guilty over a service that generated more than 10,000 fraudulent identity documents.
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Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes
Verified Instagram accounts spread AI deepfakes of Mia Goth and other celebrities, including sexualized images Meta later removed.
How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team
Teams are urged to drill out-of-band checks against cloned-voice payment, help-desk, and admin-access fraud.
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British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote and is spreading disinformation in Europe.
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LETHE: Defending against Unauthorized Image-to-Video Generation via Value Diversity Collapse
LETHE protects photos from unauthorized image-to-video generation by collapsing reference value diversity.
Microsoft Teams to Introduce Deepfake Detection to Identify AI-Generated Audio and Video in Meetings
Microsoft Teams will integrate third-party signals to flag AI-generated audio and video in meetings from November 2026.
Microsoft Teams Adds Synthetic Audio and Video Detection to Fight Deepfake Meeting Attacks
Microsoft Teams will surface third-party synthetic audio and video detection, with rollout planned from November 2026.
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