Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter hit #1 on Hugging Face with 244,000 downloads, spreading infostealer malware to Windows users.

Deepfakes have gone mass-market, with AI-driven crypto scams averaging $3.2 million per hit, 4.5x conventional fraud.

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform's trending list impersonated OpenAI's "Privacy Filter" project ...

Abstract: Fake news detection is a hot topic in the social media mining research community. Recent studies have shown that sentiment signals could significantly benefit the detection performance.

Beginner-friendly options include survey analysis, basic regression models, and exploratory visualizations with public datasets. Intermediate and advanced projects can cover machine learning, NLP, and ...

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Abstract: The rapid spread of fake news on social media has significantly increased the importance of computational detection methods. Graph-based approaches, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) ...

But the most realistic deepfakes I was able to create did not involve politicians or celebrities. They mostly did not depict ...

A stealthy Python-based backdoor framework capable of long-term surveillance and credential theft has been identified ...

Claude Opus commit added malicious npm dependency in Feb 2026, enabling crypto theft and persistent RAT access.