Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

**Executive summary:** Research by AI Forensics found thousands of members across Italian and Spanish Telegram groups exchanging and selling hacking/surveillance services, doxing, nonconsensual intimate images, and other abusive content (over 82,000 media items posted by more than 24,000 members during the study), highlighting widespread, organized criminal misuse of the platform and prompting calls for stronger regulation.