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A woman in her sixties saw Maria Shriver on her screen, recommending a honey-based cure for Alzheimer's. She clicked. Within ten days, her credit card had been charged more than five hundred dollars — for a subscription she couldn't cancel,...

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A woman learned that the abuse she survived as a child — abuse the F.B.I. has tracked since she was in preschool — was fed into an artificial intelligence system decades later. Not to catch anyone. To teach a machine...

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Six seconds. That's how long it took, in a demonstrated attack, for someone to log into a Google account and register their own device as a trusted key. The password change that came later? Didn't...

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A truck driver walked into a Reno casino with a wallet full of I.D. — his Nevada license, his player card, his union card, even a pay stub. None of it mattered. A facial recognition system said he...

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A California widow lost at least two hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars to a man she never met. He appeared on video calls. He had a face, a voice, a job — he claimed to run the U.S. Naval Academy.

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A ninety-eight percent facial recognition match sounds like certainty. But run that same ninety-eight percent threshold against a database of ten million faces, and you can still get hundreds of thousands of possible...

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One in every seventeen American teenagers has already had a fake nude image made of them. Not a real photo — an image built by a computer that looks like their body. In a classroom of twenty-five kids, that's likely one child sitting there...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/how-to-spot-a-deepfake

India just walked away from a plan to link the faces of over a billion mobile phone customers into one shared database. They didn't cancel the face scans. Those are still mandatory to get a SIM card.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-verification

In twenty twenty-four, a finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues he recognized. Every single person on that call was fake. He wired...

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Three seconds. That's all the audio a scammer needs to clone your voice well enough to fool the people who love you. According to researchers at Adaptive Security, modern voice cloning tools now hit a ninety-five percent match with the real...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-scam-second-channel-verification