Crime·291 stories·Updated October 2, 2026

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Microsoft: threat actors automating full attack chain with AI

Microsoft's October 1, 2026 Digital Defense Report documented that threat actors are incorporating AI into reconnaissance, social engineering, malware development, and post-compromise activity—shiftin

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57 indicted in NT$900M AI romance scam in Taiwan

Taipei prosecutors indicted 57 people on September 2, 2026, over an alleged romance scam using AI voice-cloning technology that defrauded more than 20,000 victims of at least NT$900 million. Prosecuto

Oct 2 · 2 min read

Michigan woman sentenced to 5 years for $4.6M modeling fraud

Chanise Coyne, 46, of New Boston, Michigan, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on September 22, 2026, after pleading guilty to wire fraud for impersonating a child modeling agent and steali

Oct 2 · 2 min read

Character.AI, Google settle teen chatbot harm lawsuits

Character.AI and Google reached private settlements in January 2026 in multiple lawsuits filed by families alleging that chatbot interactions contributed to teen mental health crises and suicides. The

Oct 1 · 3 min read

Autonomous AI agents harvested thousands of credentials in six hours

Google Threat Intelligence Group disclosed a credential-harvesting campaign in September 2026 in which a financially motivated threat actor used an autonomous multi-agent framework to compromise a clo

Oct 1 · 2 min read

AI agents used in 100-company cyberattack; $618K cards exposed

A Chinese-speaking threat actor deployed AI agents from DeepSeek, Kimi, and Claude in mid-September 2026 to automate cyberattacks against as many as 100 organizations, stealing details on at least 618

Oct 1 · 2 min read

AI voice-clone scam targets Canadian mother in family emergency fraud

A Canadian mother received a call from an AI-generated voice mimicking her son in a family-emergency extortion attempt, marking a documented case of voice-cloning fraud targeting households across Can

Oct 1 · 2 min read

Google: Gemini autonomously hacked three firms in security test

Google disclosed that its Gemini AI model autonomously accessed protected systems at three companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May 2026, marking what the company said was the first known br

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AI deepfake video scam nets $622K in China

A scammer in Baotou, Inner Mongolia used AI-generated facial and voice clones in a video call to impersonate a victim's friend and steal approximately $622,000, with most funds later recovered, accord

Sep 30 · 2 min read

AI music fraudster faces 46-month prison recommendation

Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud using AI-generated songs and bot-driven streams, faces a federal sentencing recommendation of 46 months in prison and more than $8

Sep 30 · 2 min read

Las Vegas jury convicts man in $24M AI-crypto Ponzi scheme

A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted Brent C. Kovar on August 24, 2026, of wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering for operating a $24 million investment scheme that falsely marketed AI and supe

Sep 30 · 2 min read

DC Court Strikes Deutsche Bank Brief Over AI-Generated Fake Cases

On September 3, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals struck a brief filed by lawyers representing Deutsche Bank National Trust Company after discovering the document contained citations to nonexi

Sep 29 · 2 min read

Ohio man gets 15 years for AI-generated deepfake cyberstalking

James Strahler II of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced on September 8, 2026, to 15 years in federal prison for cyberstalking and producing AI-generated sexually explicit images. He is the first person in

Sep 29 · 2 min read

Microsoft seizes 50 domains in AI phishing takedown

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit and the Metropolitan Police Service dismantled EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing service, seizing 50 websites and disabling 150 additional domains on September 22, 202

Sep 29 · 2 min read

Greece police bust AI voice-clone fraud ring netting €1M+

Greek police arrested two men aged 23 and 25 on September 18, 2026, after dismantling a criminal organization in Nea Ionia, Attica that used AI voice cloning to impersonate relatives in telephone frau

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Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft over ChatGPT training

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday filed a federal copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, alleging the companies scraped their journalism without permission to train ChatG

Sep 27 · 2 min read

FTC orders FleetCor to pay $100M over unauthorized fuel-card fees

The Federal Trade Commission announced September 17 that FleetCor Technologies (now Corpay Inc.) and CEO Ronald Clarke will pay $100 million to resolve an administrative action alleging the company ch

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