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Students in Maltese Schools Reportedly Being Targeted by Deepfake Nudes
- Occurred
- Oct 1, 2024
- Published
- Apr 1, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Beginning sometime in October 2024, students ranging in age from 12 to 20 in schools in Malta were targeted in deepfake nude incidents. The attackers have been superimposing the faces of some of the students over the bodies of naked girls or using "nudify" apps to "undress" the photos, which have reportedly been sent to the victims over WhatsApp in order to humiliate them or in some cases blackmail them.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Deepfake creators
- Deepfake creators in Malta
Harmed parties
- Students in Malta
- Students
- Minors in Malta
- Minors
- General public of Malta
- Educational communities
Tags
- Deepfake
- CSAM
- Deepfake pornography
- Sextortion
- Blackmail
- School-related deepfakes
- Malta
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake technology used to create non-consensual nude images of minors for humiliation and blackmail.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8