An imposter used a voice of Marco Rubio generated with AI to contact three foreign ministers and two US officials through Signal, warned a diplomatic cable.
An individual used audios generated with artificial intelligence To impede the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Contact Foreign Ministersan American governor and a Congress memberwith the aim of obtaining information or access to accounts.
The imposter communicated with the officials through the signal messaging applicationleaving voice messages and sending texts to induce a conversation. At least two of the people contacted received audios generated with artificial intelligence. “The actor is likely to try manipulate the target people using text and voice messages generated by AI With the aim of obtaining access to information or accounts, ”says the official document.
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The information was first published by The Washington Post. According to Reuters, the State Department cable is dated July 3 and was distributed to all diplomatic and consular offices, with the recommendation of alert external partners on possible false accounts and Identity Supplantations.
A senior American official, who asked to maintain anonymity, said “The State Department is aware of this incident and is currently investigating the matter”. In addition, he added: “The department takes its responsibility for safeguarding its information and continuously takes measures to improve the position of Cybersecurity of the department to prevent future incidents. ”
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Although the cable clarifies that a direct cybernetics threat to the departmentwarns that if any of the contacts are committed, “The information shared with third parties could be exposed.”
No author was publicly pointed out, but the document mentions a previous attempt that occurred in Aprillinked to a Hacker related to Russiawho launched a campaign of “Phishing” against activists, dissidents, former officials of the State Department and research centers in Eastern Europe.
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