AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Survey of Emerging Risks and Defensive Strategies

Artificial Intelligence's dual-use nature is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape, introducing new threats across four main categories: deepfakes and synthetic media, adversarial AI attacks, automated malware, and AI-powered social engineering. This paper aims to analyze emerging risks,...

Scammers harvesting Facebook photos to stage fake kidnappings, warns FBI

The FBI has warned about a new type of scam where your Facebook pictures are harvested to act as “proof-of-life” pictures in a virtual kidnapping. The scammers pretend they have kidnapped somebody and contact friends and next of kin to demand a ransom for their release. While the alleged victim i...

Towards Proactive Defense against Cyber Cognitive Attacks

Cyber cognitive attacks leverage disruptive innovations DIs to exploit psychological biases and manipulate decision-making processes. Emerging technologies, such as AI-driven disinformation and synthetic media, have accelerated the scale and sophistication of these threats. Prior studies primaril...

Unmasking Synthetic Realities in Generative AI: a Comprehensive Review of Adversarially Robust Deepfake Detection Systems

The rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence has fueled deepfake proliferation-synthetic media encompassing fully generated content and subtly edited authentic material-posing challenges to digital security, misinformation mitigation, and identity preservation. This systematic revi...

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,...

Deepfake Attacks Are About to Surge, Experts Warn

Artificial intelligence and the rise of deepfake technology is something cybersecurity researchers have cautioned about for years and now it’s officially arrived. Cybercriminals are increasingly sharing, developing and deploying deepfake technologies to bypass biometric security protections, and ...

Black Hat 2020: Open-Source AI to Spur Wave of 'Synthetic Media' Attacks

An abundance of deep-learning and open-source technologies are making it easy for cybercriminals to generate fake images, text and audio called “synthetic media”. This type of media can be easily leveraged on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to launch disinformation campaigns wi...

Repurposing Neural Networks to Generate Synthetic Media for Information Operations

FireEye’s Data Science and Information Operations Analysis teams released this blog post to coincide with our Black Hat USA 2020 Briefing, which details how open source, pre-trained neural networks can be leveraged to generate synthetic media for malicious purposes. To summarize our presentation,...