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FBI: Crooks manipulate online photos to fuel virtual kidnapping ransoms

  • Pierluigi Paganini--Securityaffairs.com
  • published date: 2025-12-08 18:16:18 UTC

The FBI warns of criminals altering images shared on social media and using them as fake proof of life photos in virtual kidnapping ransom scams. The FBI warns that criminals are altering publicly available photos to create fake “proof-of-life” images used in…

FBI: Crooks manipulate online photos to fuel virtual kidnapping ransoms The FBI warns that criminals are altering publicly available photos to create fake proof-of-life images used in virtual kidnap… [+2358 chars]