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RIAA chief discusses AI training, deepfakes, and music copyright
The Decoder interview covers lawsuits, detection and labeling, and whether Spotify and YouTube would participate.
Trio uses AI deepfakes to defraud $129M from businesses
Three men impersonated CEOs and lawyers with AI to trick companies into sending $129 million in wire transfers between 2024 and 2026.
ADEX: 52% of 2026 ad-fraud schemes use AI as cloaking share falls
Across 1.2 million campaigns, iOS scripts and messenger phishing rose while cloaking’s share of suspensions fell to about 45%.
Adam Mosseri says public anger over AI will keep growing
He says Instagram does not rank AI creators differently and is requiring AI accounts to label themselves.
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Survey finds AI companionship and fake explicit images widely feared
Malwarebytes says one in ten respondents report non-consensual AI nudes or threats to publish them.
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Security Affairs issues fifth AI and cybersecurity newsletter
The roundup cites claimed OpenAI data-access incidents, a LiteLLM supply-chain compromise, and about $800 million in UK AI security funding.
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UK Electoral Commission targets election deepfakes within three hours
A May 2026 pilot scanned about three million posts; humans judged ten seriously misleading.
StreamingSwap aims at real-time identity-preserving video face swapping
Authors report competitive identity transfer at 20 FPS on one RTX 4090, stable on videos up to 10 minutes.
Human deepfake-face detection varies by generator and training
Among 524 participants, model-specific training generally produced larger gains, and accuracy held five months later.
No Way To Steal My Face: Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving Personalized Generation
IDGuardian uses adversarial perturbations to stop diffusion models from preserving a person's face in generated images.
Social Engineering in the Age of Synthetic Media
Recorded Future details how threat actors abuse jailbroken and legitimate AI tools to scale phishing, deepfake impersonation, and phishing-as-a-service operations.
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Deepfakes Are Becoming a Costly Reality for Businesses, Report Warns
Pindrop's 2026 Deepfake Readiness Index found 74% of surveyed US security leaders faced suspected deepfake incidents, with a quarter of victims losing over $1m.
ZK-JPEG: Zero-knowledge Image Editing and Compression
Cryptographers present ZK-JPEG, a zero-knowledge proof system verifying a published JPEG was correctly compressed from a signed camera image.
‘Nudify’ apps: What to do if someone makes a fake nude of you
AI 'nudify' apps creating non-consensual nude images operate across 181 sites with 40 million monthly visitors; ESET offers victim prevention and takedown guidance.
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
Apple introduces Reference Image, hardware-backed verifiable photography on iPhone 18 Pro using sensor signing and Private Cloud Compute to counter AI-generated fakes.
AI is exposing a security structure built for yesterday’s threats
EY's Jeffrey Sallet argues AI-driven deepfakes and impersonation require integrating cybersecurity, physical security, HR and legal functions.
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New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites
Manhattan DA seized 12 deepfake sites that turned ~1,200 people's photos into non-consensual intimate imagery, the largest such seizure.
New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
Manhattan DA seized 12 domains hosting nonconsensual celebrity deepfake videos depicting about 1,200 victims, the largest such takedown to date.
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Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
Deepfake pornography sites have targeted nearly 150 European politicians, overwhelmingly women MPs, per new research on 160 abusive domains.
Deceptive Android Apps Exploit Google Play Early Access to Evade Reviews
Bitdefender reports deceptive Google Play Early Access apps use deepfake celebrity ads and fake rewards to lure users into ad-fraud schemes.
Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple launched Reference Image, cryptographically signing iPhone 18 Pro photos via Private Cloud Compute to prove image authenticity.
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First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Years
Ohio man James Strahler gets the first US Take It Down Act sentence: 15 years for distributing real and AI-generated abuse imagery.
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DF26: We Cannot Tell Fake From Real Anymore
DF26 benchmark shows humans and state-of-the-art deepfake detectors perform near chance on videos generated by seven modern text-to-video models.