‘Anyone can be a victim’: Sprawling AI fake nudes crisis hits South Korea
6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Anyone can be a victim’: Sprawling AI fake nudes crisis hits South Korea

Live Mint  

SEOUL—The victims were reportedly teachers, military officers, undergraduates and elementary-school students. Across a labyrinth of Telegram group chats, anonymous users submitted photos of South Korean girls and women without their permission that were manipulated into sexually explicit images and videos viewed by hundreds of thousands. South Korean singers and actresses accounted for roughly half of the individuals featured in deepfake pornography posted online, according to a 2023 report by Security Hero, an identity-fraud prevention company. But until the public outcry of recent days, South Korean police had cited Telegram’s overseas servers as a reason why investigating fake-nude cases was difficult, said Song Ran-hee, a representative for the Korea Women’s Hotline, a nonprofit supporting survivors of violence against women. More than 6,000 South Koreans this year requested the removal of faked pornographic images made without their consent, according to the state media regulator’s figures that run through July.

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Dozens of women targeted by AI-generated nudes, experts raise alarm
1 week, 6 days ago

Dozens of women targeted by AI-generated nudes, experts raise alarm

NL Times  

The number of victims of AI-generated nude images has surged over the past year, raising serious concerns among experts and support organizations. These deepfake images, created using so-called "undressing apps," have become one of the fastest-growing forms of online abuse, according to data from expertise center Offlimits. "It doesn't matter whether the photo is real or not," said Marthe Goudsmit …

Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims
55 years, 2 months ago

Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims

Wired  

When online romance and sextortion scammers sense they’ve found a victim who may send them money, they’ll use all kinds of villainous methods to get paid. In recent months, cybercriminals have taken their blackmailing efforts up a notch, creating realistic-looking “news” videos that claim their victims are wanted for crimes. Scammers based in West Africa, likely in Nigeria, and going …

South Korea fights deepfake porn with tougher punishment and regulation
4 months, 3 weeks ago

South Korea fights deepfake porn with tougher punishment and regulation

The Independent  

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Inside depraved AI deepfake porn Telegram group that encourages users to share naked pictures of their female family members in vile 'humiliation rooms'
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside depraved AI deepfake porn Telegram group that encourages users to share naked pictures of their female family members in vile 'humiliation rooms'

Daily Mail  

In dark corners of the internet, depraved content creators are sharing pornographic pictures and videos made with artificial intelligence to make money - and humiliate their loved ones. Four years after police concluded a massive bust of depraved content creators in South Korea, deepfake technology brings a sinister new dimension to channels, with hundreds of thousands of people signed up …

Deepfake porn devastates women’s lives and escalates gender conflict in South Korea
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Deepfake porn devastates women’s lives and escalates gender conflict in South Korea

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The U.S. cybersecurity firm Security Hero called South Korea …

Social Media Groups Share Explicit Images of Women
6 months ago

Social Media Groups Share Explicit Images of Women

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:Under the veil of anonymity, a disturbing trend is growing on social media platforms like Instagram, Reddit and Discord, where individuals are running group chats and pages dedicated to sharing explicit images and recordings of women and girls taken without their consent. These groups are often hidden behind private settings, making it challenging for social media moderation tools to take …

Tech companies commit to fighting harmful AI sexual imagery by curbing nudity from datasets
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Tech companies commit to fighting harmful AI sexual imagery by curbing nudity from datasets

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Several leading artificial intelligence companies …

Deepfake porn scandal: Telegram apologises to South Korea
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Deepfake porn scandal: Telegram apologises to South Korea

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Telegram issued a rare apology …

Telegram complying with regulators, says South Korea
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Telegram complying with regulators, says South Korea

Deccan Chronicle  

Seoul: Messaging app Telegram removed some illegal pornographic material following a request by South Korean regulators, the Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday, as the country grapples with a deepfake porn crisis. A South Korean broadcaster revealed last month that university students were running an illegal Telegram chatroom, where they shared deepfake pornographic material featuring female classmates. Regulators had requested …

Telegram faces South Korean investigation over deepfake porn ‘emergency’
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Telegram faces South Korean investigation over deepfake porn ‘emergency’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy South Korea is investigating Telegram …

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn
6 months, 4 weeks ago

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn

NPR  

South Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on deepfake porn why are so many fake images of porn, targeting South Korean women? It is also, like many countries, grappling with digital sex crimes, most recently, the spread of deepfake porn. ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: The overwhelming majority of the victims of deepfake porn in South Korea are women. KUHN: In his …

South Korea to ask Telegram, other social media firms to help tackle digital sex crimes
6 months, 3 weeks ago

South Korea to ask Telegram, other social media firms to help tackle digital sex crimes

The Hindu  

South Korean authorities said on Wednesday they plan to ask Telegram and other social media platforms to more actively help with the deletion and blocking of sexually explicit deepfake content, part of measures aimed at tackling the growing problem. The steps come amid public and political outrage after several domestic media outlets reported that sexually explicit deepfake images and videos …

Helpline unable to remove tens of thousands of revenge porn images
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Helpline unable to remove tens of thousands of revenge porn images

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Research by the Revenge Porn Helpline, shared exclusively with The …

South Korean man jailed for just two years for generating, distributing AI-generated child abuse porn
1 year, 5 months ago

South Korean man jailed for just two years for generating, distributing AI-generated child abuse porn

Firstpost  

A court in South Korea has jailed a man just for two years for creating and distributing AI-generated child abuse videos. This was the first time that South Korea has punished someone for deepfakes, although people are livid at the meagre quantum of the sentence As the legal landscape begins to grapple with the darker aspects of generative artificial intelligence, …

Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
1 year, 8 months ago

Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram

Wired  

It was another busy week in security, complete with hacks, murders, prosecutions, and US congressional investigations. An explosive report from IPVM, a surveillance industry trade publication, found that child sexual abuse material sourced from hundreds of hacked Hikvision cameras is being sold on Telegram. The report states that hackers likely gained access to insecure Hikvision cameras by exploiting weak or …

Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media
2 years, 3 months ago

Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media

Firstpost  

A search for the names of the Chinese cities where mass, unprecedented protests are taking place over the strict zero-COVID policy saw users being flooded with lewd posts. In his long thread of messages, he added, “Sadly if a Chinese person decides to come to Twitter to find out what happened in China last night, these nsfw posts shared by …

Women dealing with ‘spy cam porn’ epidemic in South Korea, study finds
3 years, 9 months ago

Women dealing with ‘spy cam porn’ epidemic in South Korea, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. South Korea is currently grappling with an epidemic of “spy cam porn” which usually involves men …

Digital sex crimes can be ‘murder’ to South Korean women’s identity, report finds
3 years, 9 months ago

Digital sex crimes can be ‘murder’ to South Korean women’s identity, report finds

LA Times  

On the streets of tech-savvy South Korea, the latest and most cutting-edge gadgets flash in people’s hands the instant they become available. Less visible are miniature spy cams that in recent years have led to a reckoning over internet-based sex crimes that have devastated women’s lives, spurred scandals and ignited massive offline protests. Digital sex crimes involving secretly recorded or …

South Korean chat room operator gets 40 years for blackmail
4 years, 4 months ago

South Korean chat room operator gets 40 years for blackmail

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The operator of an online chat room in South Korea was sentenced …

South Korea ‘sextortion’ mastermind coerced young women into sharing graphic images
4 years, 4 months ago

South Korea ‘sextortion’ mastermind coerced young women into sharing graphic images

LA Times  

Cho Ju-bin, center, the leader of South Korea’s online sexual blackmail ring, is surrounded by journalists after his arrest in March 2020 for operating secretive chatrooms where he posted sexually abusive videos of blackmailed women in return for cryptocurrency payments. The scheme is the latest in a series of headlines that have roiled South Korea in recent years involving illicit …

A Bot Has Turned Photos of Thousands of Women into Fake Nudes
4 years, 5 months ago

A Bot Has Turned Photos of Thousands of Women into Fake Nudes

News 18  

False nude images of more than 100,000 women have been shared online, according to a report by intelligence company Sensity. Clothes of the women have been digitally removed from photos taken from social media using Artificial Intelligence and then circulated online on Telegram, as per a report by BBC. According to Sensity, the technology used is a deepfake bot and …

Sites like 'Deep Nude' help cybercriminals to misuse social media pictures of women for extortions and blackmail
4 years, 11 months ago

Sites like 'Deep Nude' help cybercriminals to misuse social media pictures of women for extortions and blackmail

Op India  

The Maharashtra cyber cell has cautioned people against a website named ‘Deep Nude’ and its several versions that use Artificial Intelligence to generate naked picture of a person when a normal photograph is uploaded to the site, thus leaving women participating in online trends such as ‘Saree challenge’ vulnerable to extortion, pornography, and blackmail. As per a report in The …

K-pop’s K-porn problem: Growing scandal highlights South Korea’s spy-cam epidemic
5 years, 11 months ago

K-pop’s K-porn problem: Growing scandal highlights South Korea’s spy-cam epidemic

LA Times  

Seungri, formerly a member of South Korean boy band BIGBANG is seen arriving at a Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on March 14, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. Empowered by #MeToo, a new generation fights sexual abuse in South Korea’s schools » But above all, it has turned a spotlight on another national industry: illicit sex videos filmed or distributed without …

South Korea hotel scandal: More than 1,500 guests filmed with spy cams and live streamed
6 years ago

South Korea hotel scandal: More than 1,500 guests filmed with spy cams and live streamed

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 1,500 hotel guests have been secretly filmed in South Korea, with the footage livestreamed …

The Sex Scandals Shaking K-Pop And A Reckoning Over How South Korea Regards Women
6 years ago

The Sex Scandals Shaking K-Pop And A Reckoning Over How South Korea Regards Women

NPR  

The Sex Scandals Shaking K-Pop And A Reckoning Over How South Korea Regards Women Enlarge this image toggle caption Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images A total of four Korean entertainers have abruptly retired from the industry this week, in a widening scandal linking the glossy world of K-pop with a series of seedy sex crimes. Celebrity involvement in these …

South Korea 'spycam porn': Government must regulate camera sales to halt epidemic, campaigners say
6 years, 6 months ago

South Korea 'spycam porn': Government must regulate camera sales to halt epidemic, campaigners say

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The South Korean government should …

Two men jailed for hacking girls' icloud accounts, stealing nude pics
6 years, 7 months ago

Two men jailed for hacking girls' icloud accounts, stealing nude pics

Dutch News  

Two men have been jailed for 24 and 14 months for their role in an internet network in which nude photos of some 400 Dutch girls were stolen and placed online. Both men were found guilty of hacking girls’ websites and stealing photos and videos, and one was found guilty of blackmail and the possession of child pornography. The broadcaster …

Two men jailed for hacking girls' icloud accounts, stealing nude pics
6 years, 7 months ago

Two men jailed for hacking girls' icloud accounts, stealing nude pics

Dutch News  

Two men have been jailed for 24 and 14 months for their role in an internet network in which nude photos of some 400 Dutch girls were stolen and placed online. Both men were found guilty of hacking girls’ websites and stealing photos and videos, and one was found guilty of blackmail and the possession of child pornography. The broadcaster …

Tens of thousands of South Korean women protest over secretly-filmed spycam porn
6 years, 7 months ago

Tens of thousands of South Korean women protest over secretly-filmed spycam porn

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Many of the women covered their faces and some …

#MeToo movement encourages female-led activism in South Korea, sparks record protests against 'spycam pornography'
6 years, 7 months ago

#MeToo movement encourages female-led activism in South Korea, sparks record protests against 'spycam pornography'

Firstpost  

The number of crimes reported to police in South Korea has surged from around 1,100 in 2010 to more than 6,500 last year. Even a record heatwave will not keep Claire Lee from joining tens of thousands of South Korean women at a mass protest on Saturday against secretly filmed spycam pornography — as anger over the issue swells, prompting …

South Korea spycam porn epidemic sparks huge women's protest
6 years, 7 months ago

South Korea spycam porn epidemic sparks huge women's protest

Daily Mail  

Tens of thousands of South Korean women turned out to protest against secretly-filmed spycam pornography on Saturday. Organisers claim more than 55,000 people attended a protest against spycam porn in Seoul last month Claire Lee said even a record heatwave wouldn't keep her from joining Saturday's mass protest. Those caught secretly filming women have included school teachers, professors, doctors, church …

South Korean women protest against ‘spy cam porn’
6 years, 8 months ago

South Korean women protest against ‘spy cam porn’

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul on Saturday to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and video taken by hidden cameras, which they say has women living in constant anxiety and distress. Police said about 18,000 took part in the women-only protest, with demonstrators calling for stronger investigations and …

Thousands of women in South Korea demonstrate for greater penalties for "spy cam porn"
6 years, 8 months ago

Thousands of women in South Korea demonstrate for greater penalties for "spy cam porn"

CBS News  

SEOUL, South Korea -- Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul on Saturday to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and video taken by hidden cameras, which they say has women living in constant anxiety and distress. Protesters, many of them wearing red T-shirts with signs that read "Angry women will change the world," …

360 Degree: The cruelty of rape videos
8 years, 1 month ago

360 Degree: The cruelty of rape videos

Deccan Chronicle  

I will forever remember February 6, of 2015. I then sent the nine videos to the Chief Justice of India, who took immediate note of them and took my attached letter as a suo motto petition in the Supreme Court. I’m not puritanical but I have seen how consumption of pornography has generated a demand for paid sex which, in …

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