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The visual cybersecurity company Sensity has discovered a 'bot' in the Telegram messaging application that allows

users to send a photograph of a dressed woman and receive one of the same naked woman

.

To get a fake image of a woman, users just have to send a photograph to the 'bot', which they can obtain from the Internet or from their own gallery, and after a short waiting period, it will return the image with the woman without clothes .

The 'bot'

can only carry out this process successfully with photographs of women

.

Despite the 'bot' being

free to use

, users can pay approximately $ 1.50 to remove watermarks from images.

Sensity researchers claim in their report that images of approximately

104,852 women have been used to fake nudes

as of the end of July 2020, of which a minority were photographs of minors.

In addition, the number of these images has grown 198 percent in the last three months.

Researchers have also discovered

a website on which the Telegram bot is advertised

and whose statistics indicate that it has been used with more than 680,000 people, well above initial estimates.

Likewise, the report indicates that the majority of users, specifically 70 percent have used the 'bot' to "strip" women they know with

images they have obtained from social networks or private material

, while 16 percent did. to see pictures of celebrities without clothes.

The Telegram channel has obtained more than

101,080 users from all over the world,

of which about 70 percent are from Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union.

To share direct links to the 'bot' one of the most used platforms has been the Russian social network VK.

In addition, Sensity found

more than 380 pages on this platform dedicated to 'deepfakes'

similar to Telegram's.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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