{"id":166853,"date":"2023-07-04T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/artificial-intelligence-fueling-a-rise-of-sextortion-cases"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:25:38","slug":"artificial-intelligence-fueling-a-rise-of-sextortion-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/artificial-intelligence-fueling-a-rise-of-sextortion-cases","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence fueling a rise of sextortion cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-fueling-a-rise-of-sextortion-cases3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PORTSMOUTH, Va. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/crime\/a-bad-deal-for-your-good-name-ai-and-the-rise-of-sextortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAVY<\/a>) \u2013 Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing society \u2013 from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/military\/virginia-company-uses-ai-technology-to-help-veteran-organizations-identify-those-at-risk-for-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">healthcare<\/a> and education to cybersecurity and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/williamsburg\/testimony-by-hologram-instant-voice-to-text-trial-records-artificial-intelligence-reshaping-the-legal-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">even our courts<\/a><strong>.<\/strong> Despite all of its benefits, it has also given criminals an edge when it comes to deceiving us.<\/p>\n<p>Financial sextortion is a crime in which a bad actor attempts to leverage personal material (think: naked pictures or videos) to force a victim into giving into their demands \u2014 usually money or other compromising material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) \u2013 Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing society \u2013 from healthcare and education to cybersecurity and even our courts. Despite all of its benefits, it has also given criminals an edge when it comes to deceiving us. Financial sextortion is a crime in which a bad actor attempts to leverage personal material (think: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-education","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}