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The Inspector-General of Police's Cyber Vetting and Enforcement Team (CVET) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested 11 individuals, including Nigerian nationals, over allegations of using AI-generated deepfake videos to impersonate John Dramani Mahama for fraudulent online activities.

Police sources told MyjoyOnline.com that between May 1 and 3, 2026, CVET carried out coordinated cyber operations across Sogakope, Dabala, Tongu, Akatsi and Aflao in the Volta Region, leading to the arrest of five suspects.

They include Raphael Ablordeppey (32), Anipah Jonathan (23),

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge.

The lawsuit, opens new tab filed on Tuesday is the first in the U.S. to accuse an AI hiring company of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to the law firms that filed the case, and shows how consumer advocates

Ransomware has had a human at the keyboard, or at least a human writing its script, since it was first established as a category of threat. The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has captured what we assess to be the first documented case of agentic ransomware: a complete extortion operation driven end-to-end by a large language model (LLM).

This operator, which we have dubbed JADEPUFFER, gained initial access to an internet-facing Langflow instance through CVE-2025-3248 and ran an adaptive and fully automated campaign, ultimately pivoting to t

Six AI-hallucinated judgments formed the basis for the Supreme Court's striking down of an order passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday.

Three of the cited judgments did not exist, while the remaining three either did not contain the propositions attributed to them or did not correspond to the context for which they were cited.

For instance, the NCLT order cited a 2019 judgment ICICI Bank Ltd v Urban Infrastructure Real Estate Ltd., which did not exist. Along with it, the 2021 case V S Dempo & Co Ltd v Reliance Communications Ltd and the 2022 case Sarbjit Singh v Unio

WASHINGTON - Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls. But the suitor was an AI deepfake, making her yet another victim of an online romance scam.

The case illustrates how fraudsters posing as the real-life crown prince of Dubai ensnare victims by cultivating online relationships before swindling them out of money, with researchers tracing some of the scams to crime syndicates in Nigeria.

Maria met the scammer impersonating Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed, also known by his pe