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A bank lost ninety-five million euros because someone cloned a voice and sent a fake message on WhatsApp. Investigators say the money moved through accounts in several countries and some of it turned into cryptocurrency.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-cloned-voice-call-drains-95-million-from-bank

A parent hears that Roblox now makes kids scan their faces before they can chat, and they breathe out. Finally, some protection. But according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, reports of child...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/roblox-face-scan-predators-rarely-need-to-fool-the-camera

A finance employee at an engineering firm called Arup joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on that call was fake. He approved a transfer of about...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-voice-scam-news-today-77-of-targets-lost-money

A man named Harvey Murphy Jr. was arrested for a robbery in Houston, Texas. At the time of that robbery, he was in Sacramento, California. That's thousands of miles away. A facial recognition system...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/wegmans-biometric-data-face-scans-after-3m-customer-leak

A finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his company's chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every single person on that call was fake. By the time anyone found out, he'd...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-financial-fraud-40b-problem-1-habit-to-stop-it

A federal audit found that a contractor working on TSA's facial recognition system could pull passport and driver's license images off the machines. TSA didn't know when it happened. And TSA can't...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/tsa-facial-recognition-no-proof-passport-photos-got-deleted

Apple just banned apps that create fake nude images of real people. But two of the biggest tools behind that abuse, Grok and X, are still sitting in the App Store right now. If you've ever posted a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-apple-bans-nudify-apps-but-grok-still-stays-put

Missing one piece of paper can turn a twenty-minute government appointment into months of waiting. And that paper isn't hard to find. It's the notice you already got in the mail. If you or someone...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometrics-appointment-uscis-2-things-to-bring-3-they-take

Since July twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-five, an adult in Britain who wants to watch certain videos on Reddit, X, or Bluesky may have to show a computer their face first. A petition demanding the government scrap the rule...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/uk-online-safety-act-ofcoms-3-age-checks-every-adult-faces

Missouri has built a free phone app that lets a store clerk scan the back of your driver's license. According to the state, the app checks your age and then forgets you. Nothing gets stored, sent,...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/missouri-age-verification-app-scans-ids-to-shield-children