Petaling Jaya, 27th June 2025 - Authorities are raising the alarm over a disturbing rise in Al-fuelled sexual exploitation of children, as offenders increasingly weaponise deepfake technology and encrypted platforms to target Malaysian children.
CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM), an agency under the Digital Ministry, warned that Al is being abused to generate synthetic child sexual abuse material (CSAM), a trend that is complicating online safety efforts and outpacing traditional enforcement methods.
CSM CEO, Dato' Ts. Dr. Hj. Amirudin Abdul Wahab said its monitoring has uncovered growing incidents of images of Malaysian children being harvested from platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp.
"These images, often shared innocently, are repurposed by offenders using deepfake tools such as DeepFaceLab, Faceswap and Avatarify.
"In some cases, they even create fully synthetic children using Al-generated faces and 3D models, falsely claiming that no real child was harmed.
"This is a dangerous narrative that risks normal ising abuse," he told theSun recently.
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