fev24
Law enforcement agencies are scrambling to keep up with generative artificial intelligence, which experts say holds potential for disinformation and misuse — such as deepfake images showing people mouthing things they never said.
A company employee in the Chinese finance hub received “video conference calls from someone posing as senior officers of the company requesting to transfer money to designated bank accounts”, police told AFP.
https://hongkongfp.com/2024/02/05/multinational-loses-hk200-million-to-deepfake-video-conference-scam-hong-kong-police-say/
jan24
Vídeos adulterados de famosos estão sendo usados para promover uma suposta versão do jogo de celular Subway Surfers. A campanha é veiculada em redes sociais com postagens, algumas delas pagas, que prometem dinheiro fácil para quem usa o game, chamado de Subway Money.
As publicações usam imagens de famosos para criar deepfakes, técnica que usa inteligência artificial para fazer parecer que uma pessoa está falando outra coisa em uma gravação. A ideia é convencer as vítimas a pagarem pelo jogo, mas os vídeos são falsos.
Em busca de mais credibilidade, os vídeos têm demonstrações do que seria o Subway Money. Esses trechos se parecem muito com Subway Surfers, mas mostram uma área do que seria o valor a receber pelo jogador, algo que não existe no jogo oficial.
https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2024/01/14/subway-money-golpistas-criam-deepfakes-de-famosos-para-prometer-dinheiro-em-jogo-falso.ghtml
jan24
A pair of U.S. House of Representative members have introduced a bill intended to restrict unauthorized fraudulent digital replicas of people.
The bulk of the motivation behind the legislation, based on the wording of the bill, is the protection of actors, people of notoriety and girls and women defamed through fraudulent porn made with their face template.
Curiously, the very real threat of using deepfakes to defraud just about everyone else in the nation is not mentioned. Those risks are growing and could result in uncountable financial damages as organizations rely on voice and face biometrics for ID verification.
The representatives, María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and Madeleine Dean (D-Penn.), do not mention the global singer/songwriter Taylor Swift in their press release, it cannot have escaped them that she’s been victimized, too.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202401/us-lawmakers-attack-categories-of-deepfake-but-miss-everyday-fraud
A IA também tem um “lado negro” e, ao cair nas mãos erradas, pode dar origem a ameaças mais sofisticadas. As deepfakes não são uma novidade, mas, com a crescente popularidade da tecnologia, têm-se tornado mais prevalentes, levantando preocupações quanto à utilização em esquemas fraudulentos como este que circulou recentemente no YouTube e na rede social X (antigo Twitter).
BOSSIER PARISH, La. (WVUE) - A 32-year-old Louisiana man arrested on child pornography allegations is now the first in the state to face charges under a new law aimed at safeguarding individuals from the misuse of deepfake technology.
Deepfake technology uses artificial intelligence to create highly realistic photos and videos. Deepfakes are becoming more realistic, easier to access, and have added to an era of disinformation.
According to the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office, Rafael Valentine Jordan was arrested on Lylac Lane, less than half of a mile from Bellaire Elementary School in Bossier, on Nov. 17 and booked into jail on one count of juvenile pornography.
During the investigation, authorities say they discovered 436 images of child pornography created using deepfake technology. On Dec. 1, a second count of juvenile pornography was added, along with two counts of unlawful deepfake creation.
https://www.wafb.com/2023/12/27/bossier-man-jailed-child-porn-also-states-first-face-new-deepfake-law/
The world's biggest YouTuber, MrBeast, and two BBC presenters have been used in deepfake videos to scam unsuspecting people online.
Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI) to make a video of someone by manipulating their face or body.
One such video appeared on TikTok this week, claiming to be MrBeast offering people new iPhones for $2 (£1.65).
In first, Hong Kong police arrest 6 over finance scams involving deepfake technology
The FBI is warning that scammers are using AI technology to create sexually explicit deepfake photos and videos of people in a bid to extort money from them, also known as “sextortion.”
The threat is particularly disturbing because it exploits the benign photos people post on their social media accounts, which are often public. Thanks to advancements in image- and video-editing software, a bad actor can take the same photos and use them to create AI-generated porn with the victim’s face.
“The FBI continues to receive reports from victims, including minor children and non-consenting adults, whose photos or videos were altered into explicit content,” the agency said
A fraud in northern China that used sophisticated "deepfake" technology to convince a man to transfer money to a supposed friend has sparked concern about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to aid financial crimes.
Regula survey: a third of businesses hit by deepfake fraudMonday 1 May 2023 10:39 CET | News
Forensic devices and identity verification solutions provider Regula has issued a survey showcasing that AI-generated identity fraud like deepfakes affects a third of businesses.
The growing accessibility of AI technology for creating deepfakes makes the risks mount and pose a challenge for businesses and individuals alike, with 37% of organisations having experienced deepfake voice fraud, and 29% having fallen victim to deepfake videos.
A California judge has tentatively ordered Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding the capabilities of Tesla’s Autopilot features after the company questioned the authenticity of the remarks, claiming Musk is a “target for deep fakes”.
The ruling came in a lawsuit against Tesla, filed by the family of Walter Huang who was killed in a car crash in 2018.
Deepfake technology leaves “everyone exposed” to life-changing scams, experts have warned, after a German newspaper published an artificially-generated “interview” with Michael Schumacher.
In Europe, an AI-generated “interview” with Formula 1 racing legend Michael Schumacher highlights the danger (Schumacher has not been seen in public since his brain injury in a skiing accident in December 2013.)
The Schumacher family will now take legal action against Die Actuelle, a German tabloid magazine that failed to mark the interview as an AI creation. The magazine fired the editor responsible, but the damage was already done — and out in public.
https://www.ravepubs.com/video-deepfakes-theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/
In a recent case involving misusing deepfake technology, the New Taipei City District Court entered a judgment (111-Su-Zi No. 2500) against two Taiwanese YouTubers (“Defendants”) on December 8, 2022, finding them liable for damaging other’s reputation, likeness, and sexual autonomy by misappropriating other’s digital facial images through deepfake technology, and subsequently presenting them in porn materials edited and created by the Defendants.
In several recent high-profile trials, defendants have sought to cast doubt on the reliability of video evidence by suggesting that artificial intelligence may have surreptitiously altered the videos.
These challenges are the most notable examples yet of defendants leveraging the growing prevalence in society of AI-manipulated media — often called deepfakes — to question evidence that, until recently, many thought was nearly unassailable.
There are two central concerns about deepfakes in the courtroom. First, as manipulated media becomes more realistic and harder to detect, the risk increases of falsified evidence finding its way into the record and causing an unjust result.
AI image generation tech can now create life-wrecking deepfakes with ease
AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.
dez22
Why deepfake phishing is a disaster waiting to happen
https://venturebeat.com/security/deepfake-phishing/
nov22
Sam Bankman-Fried deepfake attempts to scam investors impacted by FTX
A faked video the FTX founder created by scammers has circulated on Twitter with users poking fun at its poor production quality.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-deepfake-attempts-to-scam-investors-impacted-by-ftx
out22
New research from New York University adds to the growing indications that we may soon have to take the deepfake equivalent of a ‘drunk test’ in order to authenticate ourselves, before commencing a sensitive video call – such as a work-related videoconference, or any other sensitive scenario that may attract fraudsters using real-time deepfake streaming software.
https://www.unite.ai/gotcha-a-captcha-system-for-live-deepfakes/
Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap
People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown
set22 [HOMEM VITIMA DE CHANTAGEM PORN)
It seems that scammers are now becoming bolder, even using technology to steal information and blackmail their victims. Unfortunately, a Singaporean man was the latest victim of such a scam, all because he had answered a phone call from the United Kingdom.
https://goodyfeed.com/man-deepfaked-porn-video-blackmailed/
set22
Audio deepfakes potentially pose an even greater threat, because people often communicate verbally without video – for example, via phone calls, radio and voice recordings. These voice-only communications greatly expand the possibilities for attackers to use deepfakes.
To detect audio deepfakes, we and our research colleagues at the University of Florida have developed a technique that measures the acoustic and fluid dynamic differences between voice samples created organically by human speakers and those generated synthetically by computers.
https://theconversation.com/deepfake-audio-has-a-tell-researchers-use-fluid-dynamics-to-spot-artificial-imposter-voices-189104
ag22
Scammers have created a deepfake of the CEO of crypto exchange firm Binance in online meetings to fool clients, the exec has claimed.
Chief communications officer of Binance Patrick Hillmann revealed in a blog post that the scammers used news interviews and TV appearances over the years to create a “deepfake of him to be used maliciously”.
“Other than the 15 pounds that I gained during Covid being noticeably absent, this deepfake was refined enough to fool several highly intelligent crypto community members,” he said.
https://www.digit.fyi/deepfake-tech-creates-ai-hologram-of-binance-exec/
ag22
Rick McElroy, the cybersecurity strategist at VMware, said that cybercriminals are now incorporating deepfakes into their attack methods to avoid security controls.
Two out of three respondents in VMware's report saw malicious deepfakes used as part of an attack. It is a 13% increase from 2021, with email as the top delivery method.
McElroy added that the new goal of bad actors and hackers is to use deepfake technology to compromise organizations and gain access to their environment. They can do this by duping employees into thinking they are dealing with real people.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/279444/20220821/deepfake-technology-2022-protect-business-attacks.htm
jun22
Companies hiring for an open IT position might need to do more than scrutinize how prospective employees react to the question “What is your worst quality?” If the prospective hire sneezes or coughs without moving their lips, their worst quality might be that they’re not actually real. The FBI wrote to its Internet Crime Complaint Center Tuesday that it has received multiple complaints of people using stolen information and deepfaked video and voice to apply to remote tech jobs. https://gizmodo.com/deepfakes-remote-work-job-applications-fbi-1849118604
jun22
AI and deepfakes present new risks for internet relationships
Maio22
THE THREAT THAT DEEPFAKES POSE TO SCIENCE JOURNALS
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/05/the-threat-that-deepfakes-pose-to-science-journals/
