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Impersonated public figures

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 14862 Report
AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

2025-10-01

Researchers reported that threat actors abused Keitaro Tracker infrastructure to cloak and route AI-themed investment scams across about 15,500 domains. The campaigns allegedly used AI-trading claims, deepfake videos or imagery, generative AI-produced copy and visuals, spoofed news pages, and fraudulent trading platforms to target potential victims while hiding scam content from scanners and reviewers.

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Incident 15002 Report
New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

2025-05-19

In one of the first prosecutions under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, DOJ alleged that New Jersey defendant Cornelius Shannon published at least 360 albums of AI-generated deepfake pornography depicting about 90 women, including public figures, beginning during a charged period anchored to May 2025. Prosecutors said the content appeared on an adult image- and video-sharing platform and was viewed millions of times.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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FaiKast

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Unknown operators of malicious Keitaro infrastructure

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Unknown AI-themed investment scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Unknown cryptocurrency scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Quantum AI

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Quantum AI scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Unknown AI video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Unknown image generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Cryptocurrency investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Investment scam victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Cryptocurrency scam victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

News consumers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Keitaro Tracker

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Domain cloaking infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Unknown generative AI tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Spoofed news websites

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Fraudulent trading platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Entity

Voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1486
    2 Reports

    AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains

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Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Cornelius Shannon

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Victims of deepfake abuse

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

celebrities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Media-sharing platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1500
    2 Reports

    New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

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