The FBI issued a warning to Americans that "malicious actors" are using artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes to manipulate photos and videos and trap victims into so-called sextortion schemes.

"From October 2021 to March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received over 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors. The sextortion involved at least 12,600 ...

The FBI said there had been more than 7,000 reports of sextortion in 2022. "This is a level of harassment we haven't seen recently," a senior official warned. In a news release on Monday ...

The FBI on Monday warned of the increasing use of artificial intelligence to generate phony videos for use in sextortion schemes that attempt to harass minors and non-consulting adults or coerce ...

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The other is financial sextortion, where scammers threaten to send those explicit photos to the victim’s friends or families. Between October 2021 and March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security ...

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), reports of sextortion jumped from 34,000 cases in 2022 to more than 54,000 in 2023, resulting in nearly $65 million in financial ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Last month, FBI Norfolk’s Field Office staff spoke to local high schoolers about the dangers of sextortion. However, Special Agent in Charge Brian Dugan with FBI Norfolk says ...

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...

The FBI has arrested 22 Nigerians allegedly involved in a financially motivated sextortion scheme that has been blamed for more than 20 teen suicides in the United States since 2021, the agency ...

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported over 34,000 sextortion victims in 2023, rising to more than 54,000 last year, with financial losses totaling nearly $65 million over the ...