LastPass Dodges Deepfake Scam: CEO Impersonation Attempt Thwarted

By Waqas Cybercriminals using deepfakes to target businesses! LastPass narrowly avoids security breach after employee identifies fake CEO in WhatsApp call. Read how LastPass is urging awareness against evolving social engineering tactics. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post:...

Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints

Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help...

Deepfake Threat: $2 Deceptive Content Undermines Election Integrity

By Deeba Ahmed In 2024, over 60 countries worldwide are holding elections. The most significant threat to the integrity of these elections? Deepfake videos, readily accessible on the dark web and Telegram, with prices ranging from as low as $2 to $100. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the...

A Deepfake Scammed a Bank out of $25M — Now What?

A finance worker in Hong Kong was tricked by a deepfake video conference. The future of defending against deepfakes is as much as human challenge as a technological one...

Safer Internet Day, or why Brad Pitt needed an internet bodyguard

February 6, 2024 is Safer Internet Day. When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. While we laughed about it, it made me think. The internet has been around for quite so...

Deepfake Fraud

A deepfake video conference call--with everyone else on the call a fake--fooled a finance worker into sending $25M to the criminals account...

Employee Duped by AI-Generated CFO in $25.6M Deepfake Scam

By Deeba Ahmed The incident took place in Hong Kong; however, the name of the targeted company is still unknown. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Employee Duped by AI-Generated CFO in $25.6M Deepfake Scam...

A week in security (January 29 – February 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA: Disconnect vulnerable Ivanti products TODAY FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US "You have blood on your hands." Senate Committee calls for action by social media giants to protect children online Tax season is here, so are scammers Moth...

Deepfake Taylor Swift images circulate online, politicians call for laws to ban deepfake creation

Deepfake images of Taylor Swift have really made some serious waves. Explicit images of the popstar, generated by Artificial Intelligence AI were posted on social media and Telegram. The images were viewed millions of times. The impact of the deepfake was enormous. Social media platform X formerl...

McAfee’s Mockingbird AI Tool Detects Deepfake Audio with 90% accuracy

By Deeba Ahmed Can You Trust Your Ears? Deepfakes Run Amok, but McAfee Says Relax, We've Got Mockingbird. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: McAfees Mockingbird AI Tool Detects Deepfake Audio with 90% accuracy...

3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals

A six-month-long international police operation codenamed HAECHI-IV has resulted in the arrests of nearly 3,500 individuals and seizures worth $300 million across 34 countries. The exercise, which took place from July through December 2023, took aim at various types of financial crimes such as...

Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control

New research shows the number of deepfake videos is skyrocketing—and the world's biggest search engines are funneling clicks to dozens of sites dedicated to the nonconsensual fakes...

Deepfake Election Interference in Slovakia

Well designed and well timed deepfake or two Slovakian politicians discussing how to rig the election: Šimečka and Denník N immediately denounced the audio as fake. The fact-checking department of news agency AFP said the audio showed signs of being manipulated using AI. But the recording was...

Turns out even the NFL is worried about deepfakes

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im at the point in the calendar year where Im a sponge for NFL content. I couldnt be happier to escape from my six-month American football-free slumber and am ready to watch games three days a week and listen to NFL podcasts or read...

NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats

Today, the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet CSI, Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations, which provides an overview of synthetic media threats,...

Threatening rogue finance apps removed from the Apple Store

Multiple apps have been removed from the App Store in India after a large helping of unethical behaviour was aimed at their users. TechCrunch reports that "Pocket Kash, White Kash, Golden Kash, and OK Rupee" among others were taken down after getting close to the top 20 finance app listing spots...

New technique can defeat voice authentication "after only six tries"

Voice authentication is back in the news with another tale of how easy it might be to compromise. University of Waterloo scientists have discovered a technique which they claim can bypass voice authentication with "up to a 99% success rate after only six tries". In fact this method is apparently ...

New video provides a behind-the-scenes look at Talos ransomware hunters

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. AI-generated art is causing drama across the internet over the past few months, from Marvel TV show opening credits scenes to predatory YouTubers who claim YOU can make millions by having AI tools create childrens books for you. There...

Warning: Victims' faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

The FBI has issued a warning about criminals digitally manipulating people's faces on to pornographic images--known as deepfaking--and then using those images to harass or extort money out of their victim in a practice known as sextortion. The FBI said the victims include children. From the...

Deepfake Cyber Attack Hits Russia: Fake Putin Message Broadcasted

By Waqas Initially, reports suggested that only radio messages were affected. However, subsequent investigations and recordings revealed that the fraudulent messages were also displayed on television screens. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Deepfake Cyber Attack Hits...