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A midyear breakdown of who was targeted, what it cost, and where the legal exposure now sits.</p><a class="rlp__btn" href="#gate">Download the full report &rarr;</a></div></section><section><div class="rlp__wrap"><div class="rlp__stats"><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">821</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Verified deepfake attacks in six months &mdash; <strong>one incident may span thousands of victims and millions of synthetic files</strong>. 129 regulatory and policy developments tracked separately</div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">292.8B</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Media reach in six months &mdash; <strong>effective parity with all of 2025 (296.4B published) in half the time</strong></div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">15,736</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Documented victims &mdash; <strong>a conservative floor</strong> based on known counts where victims impacted were listed</div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">3.46M</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Synthetic files documented across those attacks &mdash; <strong>one tool (Grok) accounts for 87% of every file we can count</strong></div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">1 in 6</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Attacks were nonconsensual sexual imagery of adults or children &mdash; <strong>137 incidents</strong></div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">$2.24B</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Statutory civil exposure from documented NCII/CSAM victims alone, under 15 U.S.C. &sect;6851 &mdash; <strong>while verified direct losses total $6.95M</strong>, exposure to companies permitting or distributing non-consensual imagery is enormous</div></div><div><div class="rlp__stat-num">22</div><div class="rlp__stat-label">Political disinformation deepfake incidents <strong>each cleared 1B in potential reach</strong> &mdash; political disinformation has increasing spread and is difficult to retroactively correct</div></div></div></div></section><section class="rlp__section"><div class="rlp__wrap"><div class="rlp__section-num">Section 01 &middot; Reach</div><h2 class="rlp__h2">Two attack categories have the most reach</h2><p class="rlp__p">Deepfake attacks reached a potential audience of 261.4 billion in six months (292.8B across all tracked incidents). Brand &amp; Reputation (63.7%) and Political Disinformation (24.8%) together account for 88.5% of attack reach. Reach is a potential exposure ceiling based on press coverage, not a confirmed viewership count.</p><div class="rlp__bar-title">Media Reach by Attack Type</div><div class="rlp__bar-caption">Combined potential reach by attack type across 821 verified attacks, H1 2026. Corporate fraud is barely visible at this scale &mdash; and that is the finding.</div><div class="rlp__bars"><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">Brand &amp; Reputation</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:100%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">166.5B</span></div><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">Political Disinformation</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:38.9%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">64.7B</span></div><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">CSAM</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:7.8%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">13.0B</span></div><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">NCII</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:5.6%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">9.3B</span></div><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">Consumer Fraud</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:4.7%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">7.8B</span></div><div class="rlp__bar"><span class="rlp__bar-label">Corporate Fraud</span><div class="rlp__bar-track"><div class="rlp__bar-fill" style="width:0.04%"></div></div><span class="rlp__bar-value">62.5M</span></div></div><div class="rlp__quote">Fraudsters now ask for a job instead of money. Corporate fraud went almost completely dark in the press: <strong>14 of 15 incidents were covered by a single source</strong>, mostly industry-specific news outlets (93%, vs roughly 80% in 2025). The FBI counts billions in BEC losses and Regula finds 92% of businesses hit. Reporting completed fraud invites scrutiny and liability on top of the loss, so many enterprises may be putting in just as much effort to prevent PR scandals as they do deepfake prevention at scale.</div></div></section><section id="gate" class="rlp__gate"><div class="rlp__gate-wrap"><div class="rlp__section-num" style="text-align:center">Full Report &mdash; Free</div><h3>Continue reading &mdash; the full midyear report</h3><p>Financial damage and legal exposure, time to awareness, who is impacted, modalities deployed, political disinformation, the Grok special report, the authenticity crisis, our 2025 predictions scoreboard, the regulatory landscape, and complete methodology. 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