Social media deepfake scams push fraudulent investment schemes

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The latest threat report from ESET tracks these as HTML/Nomani, the countries with the most detections being Japan, Slovakia, Canada, Spain, and Czechia.

Social media has seen a 335 percent boom in new scams using deepfake videos and company-branded posts to lure victims into fraudulent investment schemes.

The report summarizes threat landscape trends seen in ESET telemetry and from the perspective of both ESET threat detection and research experts, from June through November 2024.

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Author / Journalist: Ian Barker

Category: Technology

Markets: United StatesCanadaJapanMaliOmanSlovakiaSpain

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Published On: 2024-12-16 @ 11:07:02 (12 hours ago)

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