Telegram’s collectible digital gifts and usernames, some now reportedly selling for over $100,000, have made users targets ...

The open Telegram group, which had over 100,000 members and has since gone private, was used to exchange covert footage of ...

The method employed by “Pandora” is similar to that of the so-called “Vigilante” blackmail ring run by Kim Nok-wan, 33, who was charged with leading the largest known Telegram deepfake ...

In some cases, children and teens were blackmailed even when they didn’t send a nude image. Roughly 1 of 10 reports Thorn reviewed involved artificially generated content.

Sextortion can lead to mental health problems and, in extreme cases, suicide. It has been connected to at least 30 deaths of teenage boys by suicide since 2021, according to a tally of private ...

A new analysis of 85 websites selling nudify services found they may be collectively worth up to $36 million a year ...

In some cases, children and teens were blackmailed even when they didn’t send a nude image. Roughly one of 10 reports Thorn reviewed involved artificially generated content.