‘Dark web a de-facto fraud superstore’ By Christopher Tredger, Technology Portals editor, ITWebJohannesburg, 23 Feb 2026Jason Lane-Sellers, director of fraud and identity (EMEA) at LexisNexis Risk ...

AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial”, an analysis published by AI experts has said. Tools to ...

Introduction The proliferation of deepfake technology, synthetic media generated using advanced artificial intelligence techniques, has emerged as a ...

Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough Victims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against ...

Digital forensics pioneer Hany Farid explains what it will take to rebuild trust in the deepfake era ...

AI systems are far better than people at spotting deepfake images, but when it comes to deepfake videos, humans may still have the edge. That’s the surprising twist from a new study that pits people ...

A woman named Abigail believed she was in a romantic relationship with a famous actor. The messages felt real. The voice sounded right. The video looked authentic. And the love felt personal. By the ...

Deepfake abuse is abuse, and there is nothing fake about the harm it causes. “UNICEF is increasingly alarmed by reports of a rapid rise in the volume of AI-generated sexualised images circulating, ...

The genealogy platform MyHeritage released a new AI-powered feature called Deep Nostalgia and it turns totally still photos into animated faces. Before someone asks, there’s no magic here. The tool ...

We’re going to be closing today’s BBC Verify Live shortly so take a few minutes now to read back on our work. Legislation has come into force in the UK today making it a criminal offence for anyone to ...

The announcement comes just days after Grok — which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk — drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of ...