Matt Burgess
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Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe (opens the original)
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Almost 150 politicians across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography websites over the last few years, according to new research seen by WIRED. Some of the politicians, who are overwhelmingly women, have had their likeness included in explicit videos, while others have names and photos listed in disturbing database-like entries that can link to deepfake creation tools. Analysis of around 160 domains that host deepfake abuse and other nonconsensual sexual content, by researcher
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop âAllowingâ AI Child Abuse Ads (opens the original)
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San Franciscoâs city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop âallowingâ paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On Tuesday, WIRED reported that Meta has run more than 350 ads in recent months that transformed still images of minorsâsome of them confirmed as real individuals, including a member of a European royal familyâinto short videoclips tha
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child sexual abuse material (CSAM), following reporting by WIRED. At the time, the company said that most of the abusive ads had been published prior to it rolling out new AI tools designed to “better detect and block” harmful ads being uploaded. That AI syst
Sensitive Info Goes Into âNo Replyâ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (opens the original)
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Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriouslyâitâs a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messagesâby his calculations thatâs an average of 699.99 pings per day. This deluge isnât the regular flood of spam, newsletters, and unwanted deals that fill many peopleâs inboxes. Instead, companies and other organizations are inadvertently sending Solovewicz other peopleâs private informa
A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found Theyâd Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide (opens the original)
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For years, North Koreaâs stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising the alarm on just how effective and far reaching the targeting of individual employees and contractors has been in breaching organization
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