One of the missions of HSI is to investigate child abuse.
Homeland Security/Flickr"We have seen an 86% drop in domestic victims of financial sextortion since that time, unfortunately, what we've seen is almost 300% increase in foreign victims of financial sextortion," Mike Prado the head of HSI's Cyber Crime Center told ABC News.
The HSI Cyber Crimes Center focuses on all things cyber – but they primarily focus on online child sexual exploitation, according to Prado. MORE: I was a victim of online sextortion in high school. Here's what I want parents and kids to know, according to Prado. Homeland Security Investigations has an agent detailed to the Ivory Coast to work with local authorities due to the non-extradition rules they have.
"Everywhere children are congregating online, predators are aware of that and then taking them off platform into other more encrypted chat rooms and areas where they can have encrypted conversations outside the eyes of law enforcement and outside the lot, outside the eyes of the tech industry and abusing these abusing these children," he said.There has also been an unpick in the use of artificial intelligence to create images using children who haven't been the victim of abuse.
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