A shadowy polling firm, Median Strategies, confessed to faking survey results in Wisconsin and Los Angeles races, with 21-year-old Rahil Prakash revealing himself as the operator in an interview with …
A January 2024 deepfake video call scam at professional services firm Arup resulted in 15 wire transfers totaling about $25 million, prompting security experts like Deepak Gupta, technical CEO at Grac…
Business email compromise scams crossed $3 billion in reported 2025 losses, according to the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report, which also said AI-related complaints cost Americans nearly $893 million …
A finance employee at Arup transferred $25.6 million after a deepfake video call with synthetic executives, while Starbucks retired an AI inventory system after nine months due to miscounts, and Deloi…
Global payment fraud reached $33.4 billion in 2024, with the US absorbing 42% of losses despite processing only 25% of global card transactions, according to the Nilson Report. The FBI reported over o…
Voice authentication and video-based identity verification are no longer trustworthy as standalone security signals, according to security researchers and law enforcement data, because AI can clone an…
UK payment fraud losses hit £1.28 billion in 2025 as criminals increasingly use AI-powered deepfakes, cloned voices and synthetic identities to impersonate trusted people, according to UK Finance. Aut…
Synthetic media has escalated from a technical curiosity to a mainstream threat, with deepfakes projected to grow 900% annually to 8 million by 2025, driving corporate fraud, biometric bypasses, and n…
Energy developer Xlinks has unveiled plans for a £3.6bn AI data centre campus in north Devon, aiming to create up to 1,200 jobs and boost the local economy. The project highlights the growing demand f…
As AI systems grow more capable, humans face increasing risks of losing control over their beliefs and actions through AI-driven persuasion, AI psychosis, and convincing impersonation. Frontier LLMs n…