Brazil Cybercrime Reports Jump 28% in 2025 as AI Drives Rise in Child Sexual‑Imagery Cases

Overview

• SaferNet logged 87,689 unique cybercrime complaints in 2025, up 28.4% year over year, with 143,118 total submissions including duplicates.
• Reports tied to child sexual abuse and exploitation imagery reached 63,214, a 19.3% increase and the second‑highest annual total on record.
• SaferNet links the rise to accessible image‑generation tools, noting that unconstrained systems can be used to fabricate abusive content despite big‑tech safeguards.
• Brazil’s Chamber Justice Committee approved PL 3066/25 to penalize AI‑created sexualized images of minors, and the bill now awaits a plenary vote.
• Regulators and prosecutors urged immediate platform curbs as services such as Grok faced cross‑border investigations; SaferNet’s Helpline handled 2,254 cases in 2025, up 39%, led by exposures of intimate images.