ActiveFence Blog

Discover how ISIS’s media arm is analyzing and adapting advanced AI tools for propaganda, recruitment, and cyber tactics in a newly released guide detailing AI’s dual-use potential.

Discover how threat actors abuse fake emergency data requests to access sensitive user information, and what platforms can do to stop them.

Learn how online cartels recruit hitmen, traffic women, and exploit UGC platforms – and how proactive detection can stop them in their digital tracks.

Uncover the safety risks of GenAI chatbots in this travel industry case study—learn actionable insights to mitigate vulnerabilities across industries.

Explore the alarming rise in online financial sextortion targeting minors – Discover the latest advanced detection methods, and strategies to combat this global threat.

Discover the hidden dangers of non-graphic child sexual exploitation on UGC platforms and learn to combat these pervasive threats.

Combat the surge of anti-LGBTQ+ narratives and hate speech, especially during critical times like Pride Month.

ActiveFence researchers uncover new incentives and tactics in swatting attacks. Learn more about this phenomenon, and what platforms can do to ensure they are not abused.

For Trust & Safety teams, mitigating and proactively detecting online child marriage requires a specialized understanding of circumvention techniques and socio-religious keywords used to mask this violative activity.

In the dark corners of the web, predators are communicating to find ways to create CSAM and groom children using generative AI. This research blog explores how they do it, and what platforms can do to stop the abuse.

ActiveFence’s Human Exploitation Senior Researcher Maya Lahav examines a rising trend in online behavior involving victims of sickness, poverty, or war who are coerced into recording and soliciting donations. This harmful trend exploits some of the most vulnerable in the global community, monetizing the suffering of those who cannot legally consent.

ActiveFence’s Milan Czerny reviews online threat actor activity to sexually exploit Ukrainian victims of war, guiding Trust & Safety teams in how to secure platforms from human exploitation.

ISIS’s move from physical jihad to digital warfare has marked a new chapter in the group’s expansion efforts.

ActiveFence reviews how human exploitation emerges and increases online as global sporting events take place.

ActiveFence shares information warfare tactics being used to help teams secure their platforms from becoming weapons of war.

ActiveFence shares how one false narrative evolved, creating a wide-spread trend of disinformation and misinformation.

ActiveFence assesses the false narratives that have spread across German social media during the country’s 2021 federal elections.