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Risky Bulletin: Game devs are being extorted with AI game-cloning threats
Game developers have received extortion emails threatening to clone their games using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and release them publicly unless paid ransoms ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. The campaign, ongoing for several months, has prompted many developers to remove demo versions from the Steam platform.
Why it matters: Game developers face financial and intellectual property threats requiring incident response and law enforcement engagement; other industries may face similar AI-enabled extortion tactics.
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