Daily Mail: Tech expert reveals how boom in AI has enabled hackers to create sordid real-life scenarios to target victims online - and what you can do to avoid being extorted
- Online hackers are extorting victims out of thousands of dollars by creating sordid scenarios and luring in unsuspecting internet users
- In one recent case, Kai Zhuang, 17, was plucked from a Utah mountainside after anonymous scammers convinced him to isolate himself
- Once he was alone, kidnappers sent a ransom demand to his parents in China to be paid for his return
- The rouse is part of an ongoing series of scams that are exploiting individuals around the world
Read the article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12924023/virtual-kidnapping-expert-AI-enabled-hackers-online.html
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