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Digital assets after death: Managing risks to your loved one’s digital estate

2026-04-01 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

3 predictions
T1657Financial Theft
46%
“alternatively, scammers might target the family of a recently departed individual. for example, they might scrape footage of them from the web to create posthumous deepfakes requesting money or information from shell - shocked relatives. or they could hijack the deceased ’ s soci…”
T1657Financial Theft
41%
“information in accounts. what ’ s at risk? for bereaved friends and family, the emotional sucker punch of losing a loved one can be cruelly amplified if they ’ re unable to retrieve the digital remains of the deceased. even worse if social media algorithms surface unwanted remind…”
T1589.001Credentials
34%
“alternatively, scammers might target the family of a recently departed individual. for example, they might scrape footage of them from the web to create posthumous deepfakes requesting money or information from shell - shocked relatives. or they could hijack the deceased ’ s soci…”

Summary

Fraudsters often target the accounts of the deceased or their grieving relatives. Here’s how to keep the scammers at bay.