deepfakes

Field Guide to AI, Security and Cybercrime

• Deepfake Impersonation of Minors: A New Bullying Frontier

  AI-generated impersonations of children are a potent new tool for bullying, exploiting legal gaps and causing unique emotional harm.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Deepfake Video Calls and the Payment Nobody Should Have Made

  When your boss appears on a video call demanding an urgent transfer, the video is the weakest evidence in the room.

  Opinion · 7 min

• Deepfakes Enter the Courtroom: A Challenge for Evidence

  The established rules for authenticating video and audio evidence are breaking down in the face of AI-generated fabrication.

  Opinion · 9 min

• Someone Made a Deepfake of You: What to Do First

  The first hours decide whether a fake video or cloned voice stays contained or spreads. Most of the right moves are dull, and they work.

  Opinion · 6 min

• A Family Safe Word Against AI Voice Scams: Designing One That Holds

  Most safe words fail because they are guessable, never rehearsed, or spoken on the channel the attacker controls.

  Opinion · 9 min

• AI Content Labelling Rules: What Must Be Disclosed, and by Whom

  Transparency duties split between the tool that generates and the person who publishes.

  Opinion · 9 min

• AI Romance Scams: One Operator, Hundreds of Relationships

  Language models let a single scammer sustain many convincing partners, and the old tells are gone.

  Opinion · 9 min

• AI Sextortion: What Parents Should Do in the First Hour

  The image does not have to be real for the threat to work, which changes the conversation you need to have.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Content Credentials (C2PA) Explained: What the Label Proves

  Provenance can vouch for what honest sources signed; its absence proves nothing about anything else.

  Opinion · 10 min

• Deepfake Job Candidates: Remote Hiring Is Now an Identity Problem

  The interview has become an authentication step, and most hiring teams never designed it as one.

  Opinion · 9 min

• Deepfake-as-a-Service: Fraud Tools Now Come With Support

  Face swaps, voice clones and fake documents are packaged for criminals who cannot build them.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Deepfakes in Elections: The Bigger Risk Is Disbelieving the Real

  Synthetic clips matter, but the lasting damage is a public that can wave away any genuine recording.

  Opinion · 9 min

• Digital Replicas and Consent: Who Controls Your Voice and Face?

  A one-time release signed for a job can become permission to generate you forever.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Griefbots: Talking to an AI Version of Someone Who Died

  A simulation built from a person's messages can comfort, short-term, but distort memory long-term.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Help Desk Social Engineering: The Password Reset Phone Call

  A convincing caller asking IT for a reset has become the easiest way past strong authentication.

  Opinion · 8 min

• How to Check a Viral Video Is Real Before You Share It

  Pixel-peeping loses; tracing who posted it first, when, and where usually wins.

  Opinion · 9 min

• How to Get a Deepfake Image Removed Under the Take It Down Act

  The 48-hour removal duty is a real lever, but it works best when the request is prepared like evidence.

  Opinion · 8 min

• How to Tell If a Voice Call Is an AI Clone (Your Ear Cannot)

  Listening harder for robotic artifacts is a losing game; the defence is moving verification off the call.

  Opinion · 8 min