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…. Continue reading Deepfake Threat: $2 Deceptive Content Undermines Election Integrity

Smashing Security podcast #358: Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated deepfake duping, be one your guard from pig butchers as Valentine’s Day approaches, and spare a moment to feel sorry for poor ransomware gangs.

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Smashing Security podcast #357: Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?

The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real…

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Smashing Security podcast #355: Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love

Has the British Prime Minister been caught secretly profiting from a cryptocurrency app? Were 23andMe right to blame their users after a data breach? And Indian men have hard feelings after falling for a money-for-sex scam.

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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.
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Interpol Nets $300 Million, Arrests 3,500 in Major Cyber Crime Bust

By Deeba Ahmed
From NFTs to Sextortion: AI & Deepfakes Fuel New Scams Exposed in Interpol Cyber Sting – The global arrests were part of Interpol’s operation HAECHI IV.
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UK Cybersecurity Center Says ‘Deepfakes’ and Other AI Tools Pose a Threat to the Next Election

Britain’s cybersecurity agency said that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the country’s next election, and cyberattacks by hostile countries and their proxies are getting harder to track.
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