Scammers target OnlyFans users with deepfakes


OnlyFans creators are used to posting adult videos of themselves online, but what happens if someone takes control of their images and uses them for fraud? This week, USA Today revealed how criminals are impersonating OnlyFans creators using AI tools. They use deepfake content to lure the real models’ fans with fake promises of live chats, and then ghost them after the followers pay up in advance.

Read more…
Source:  Malwarebytes Labs


Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox


Related:

  • CloudKeys in the Air: Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys

    October 30, 2023

    Unit 42 researchers have identified an active campaign we are calling EleKtra-Leak, which performs automated targeting of exposed identity and access management (IAM) credentials within public GitHub repositories. As a result of this, the threat actor associated with the campaign was able to create multiple AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances that they used for wide-ranging ...

  • TA571 Delivers IcedID Forked Loader

    October 30, 2023

    Proofpoint researchers identified TA571 delivering the Forked variant of IcedID in two campaigns on 11 and 18 October 2023. Both campaigns included over 6,000 messages, each impacting over 1,200 customers in a variety of industries globally. Emails in the campaigns purported to be replies to existing threads. This is known as thread hijacking. The emails contained ...

  • ING CISO says data sharing is key to financial cybersecurity

    October 30, 2023

    Compliance has been the traditional focus of IT departments in financial institutions, but as cyber threats continue to evolve, the financial industry needs to look to each other to help protect the wider ecosystem. Finextra spoke with Beate Zwijnenberg, chief information security officer at ING, about some of the challenges the bank is facing across ...

  • Casio Data Breach Impacts Customers in 149 Countries

    October 27, 2023

    Japanese electronics colossus Casio Computer Co., Ltd. has suffered a data breach on its ClassPad education platform, impacting customers in 149 countries. A technical failure on October 11, 2023, alerted Casio to the cyber intrusion that culminated in an unauthorized entity accessing the ClassPad development database on October 12, 2023. Casio launched an investigation and confirmed ...

  • A cascade of compromise: unveiling Lazarus’ new campaign

    October 27, 2023

    Earlier this year, a software vendor was compromised by the Lazarus malware delivered through unpatched legitimate software. What’s remarkable is that these software vulnerabilities were not new, and despite warnings and patches from the vendor, many of the vendor’s systems continued to use the flawed software, allowing the threat actor to exploit them. Upon further investigation, ...

  • Kansas court system down nearly 2 weeks in `security incident’ that has hallmarks of ransomware

    October 26, 2023

    Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they have provided no explanation, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and forced them to file motions ...