Topic: deepfake technology cybercrime

Trump's Chief of Staff Deepfaked in Phishing Scam

Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn't cover in depth ourselves. Despite Wiles’ reported claim of having her device hacked, it remains unconfirmed whether this was actually how attackers identified Wiles’ associates. It would also be possible to assemble such a target list from a combination of publicly available information and data sold by gray-market brokers. If so, that would make the incident one of the most significant cases yet of so-called deepfake software being ...