Colm Gannon is a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in digital safety, cybercrime investigations, and software ...

Sextortion scams targeting children are growing around the world, particularly with the rapid proliferation of "nudify" apps - AI tools that digitally strip off clothing or generate sexualised imagery ...

International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children chief executive Colm Gannon said the organisation had received a 1325 ...

An Australian small business owner claims she lost about $50,000 after her Instagram accounts were suspended over an ...

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is surging, with lifelike images and videos increasingly difficult to detect.

Unmoderated AI chatbots being used to create child exploitation material is the topic of a roundtable at parliament this week.

Sen. William Parkinson seeks to combat a new form of harassment: the creation and distribution of deepfake intimate images.

India prohibits Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) under strong laws like the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, yet ignores the alarming issue of children accessing adult ...

While the internet’s architecture has always made it difficult to control what is shared online, there are a few kinds of ...

AI image generators are trained on large amounts of real data, including real CSAM or publicly available photos of children ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The Internet Watch Foundation, an organization that tracks child sexual abuse material posted online, has documented a surge over the first half of 2025 in AI-generated, realistic ...

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported a disturbing surge in AI generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), ...