Deepfake porn by which someone is able to use deepfake software to take the photo of someone they know or a celebrity to create what appear to be nude photos or videos of the unwary victim has been a problem for a few years as the technology becomes easier to use and more available.  In particular high school boys have abused deepfake technology to make and circulate deepfake nude photos and videos of their female classmates.  Now in apparent poetic justice some of those deepfake purveyors are downloading malware when the try to use deepfake porn sites.

The Russian cybercrime gang FIN7 which has also been known as Carbanak has created seven websites that advertise what they refer to as a “DeepNude Generator” which provides artificial intelligence deepfake technology to enable anyone using their site to create deepfake nude photos and videos.  People either downloading the software of signing up for a free trial end up downloading various forms of malware including ransomware.  FIN7 has also used their technical expertise to manipulate the algorithms used by search engines to enable them to get a prominent listing in searches for porn sites.

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The easy piece of advice to avoid the problem of downloading malware in this manner is to merely avoid doing deepfake porn which is illegal under recent federal law.  The problem is that the temptation for some people is just too great.  Compounding the problem is that the probable target of FIN7 which has used cybercrime to steal  more than 1.2 billion dollars is not individual users, but large companies where they hope to lure employees into downloading the malware at work and enable FIN7 to use their malware against large companies that can be profitable targets for ransomware and other malware.

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