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Sextortion scams surged globally as AI and breached data enable personalized attacks, exploiting fear and deepfake threats.

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Avast researchers are seeing countries around the world being impacted by these highly manipulative scams. In the US, the ...

Sextortion scams are becoming more common – and more threatening – as cybercriminals exploit artificial intelligence (AI) and ...