X said it removed more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations targeting US political debate ahead of the 3 November 2026 US midterm elections. The platform linked the operations to Iran, Russia and China. It said the networks used inauthentic accounts to post and amplify political content aimed at ca…
Two official Twitter/X accounts of Ireland's police service, Garda Síochána, were accessed by an unauthorised third party on Wednesday evening and used to post cryptocurrency-related messages. The posts claimed followers could claim free cryptocurrency through an airdrop, a lure that can trick victims into handing over wallet keys and hav…
The UK Electoral Commission is developing an AI-powered system to alert candidates and parties to significant deepfakes within three hours of first posting. Chief executive Vijay Rangarajan announced the plan at the Conservative Party conference and cited a deepfake of Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly during Ireland's 2025 …
This WeLiveSecurity explainer gives practical advice to people targeted by AI-generated deepfakes, which are increasingly used in fraud, extortion, harassment and non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). It sets out the legal context: the US TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalizes NCII distribution and requires platforms to remove reported content w…