Lavawave Expands Digital AI Crime Response Globally
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Pursuing International Crime Response Based on the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Research Project and National Police Agency Software Supply
Lavawave announced on the 23rd that it would pursue business expansion. The company plans to build on the patent portfolio and technical capabilities it has accumulated in responding to existing digital crimes such as bodycam phishing, as well as its existing technologies and patents, to drive this expansion. The target now extends beyond voice phishing and bodycam phishing to digital AI crime response, with a stronger focus on crimes involving the misuse of AI. The expanded scope also includes international crimes such as child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and forced labor.
Lavawave has continued to respond to digital crimes in the industry, and it is using its patented technologies to block video distribution and protect victims' information. These technologies are also used for the prior prevention of deepfakes, analysis of illegal content distribution networks, and investigative support.
Through the service expansion, Lavawave plans to broaden services for individual victims and expand its business scope to public institutions and companies. Accordingly, the targets of this broader business scope are individual victims, public institutions, and companies.
In the deepfake field, Lavawave jointly developed prior prevention technology with the Cyber Security Research Center at KAIST and also secured related patents. The technology works by applying a protection signal that is difficult to identify with the naked eye to original images, with the aim of disrupting malicious AI synthesis. Through this, the company sought to reduce the risk of image abuse before content is produced and distributed and to strengthen its prevention system.
It later expanded opportunities to use its prevention technology by cooperating with the National Police Agency. Lavawave unveiled a trial service for its deepfake prior prevention technology through the National Police Agency's cybercrime reporting system, ECRM, allowing general users to experience applying the protection technology to their own images. This linked research and development results with actual services and created an opportunity to highlight the need for digital crime prevention.
The company also worked with Realmeter, a public opinion polling specialist, on cooperation related to deepfake response for local elections. The two companies conducted a public awareness survey on deepfakes and used a monitoring solution for local election candidates to support verification of suspected false and defamatory content posted online about candidates. In addition, they supported the securing of evidence needed for responses by relevant authorities, contributing to the protection of candidates' rights and expanding the scope of technology use to safeguarding election fairness.
Lavawave carried out a service project for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's study on in-depth analysis of illegal harmful websites related to digital sex crimes in the public sector. The study cross-analyzed domains, servers, advertising networks, and payment methods. The purpose was to identify the connections and operating structures among illegal and harmful websites.
Lavawave was then selected as the final winner of the National Police Agency's 2026 illegal site detection and analysis software purchase project. The supplied product is CyberIntellPro (CIP). CyberIntellPro (CIP) has functions that support the detection of suspected illegal sites, analysis of related information links, management of investigative materials, and preparation of investigative reports.
Lavawave CEO Kim Jun-yeop said the company plans to continue advancing its evolving digital crime information analysis solutions. He also said the company plans to expand cooperation with universities, research institutions, and public institutions. Lavawave aims to expand its technology from bodycam phishing response capabilities into prevention, detection, analysis, and investigative support. It also aims to grow into a comprehensive digital crime response technology company in South Korea and overseas.
Based on its ability to analyze crime-related clues left online and its ability to analyze connections between sites, Lavawave is pushing ahead with business expansion into digital international crime response involving global NGOs and crimes such as child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and forced labor. It also announced plans to pursue technology cooperation and supply solutions for overseas institutions.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Hye-jin
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408680
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