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Deepfakes, AI-Manipulated Audio, and Hijacked Social Media Surge in 2024

Avast, a leader in digital security and privacy and brand of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), has reported that social engineering threats – those which rely on human manipulation – account for most cyberthreats faced by individuals in 2024. According to the latest quarterly Avast Threat Report, which looks at the threat landscape from January-March 2024, scams, phishing and malvertising accounted for 90% of all threats on mobile devices and 87% of threats on desktop. Moreover, the threat research team disco