FBI alert warns of Russian, Chinese use of deepfake content
FBI Director Chris Wray. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The FBI warned in an alert Wednesday that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks.
The alert notes that foreign actors are already using deepfakes or synthetic media manipulated digital content like video, audio, images and text in their influence campaigns.
“Foreign actors are currently using synthetic content in their influence campaigns, and the FBI anticipates it will be increasingly used by foreign and criminal cyber actors for spearphishing and social engineering in an evolution of cyber operational tradecraft,” states the alert obtained by CyberScoop.
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