US Secretary of State Marco Rubio impersonated by AI in Signal voicemails to high-ranking officials
“The department takes responsibility for protecting information seriously and is constantly taking steps to improve the cyber security stance of the department to prevent future events,” he said.
In mid -May, FBI said that malicious actors used short messages and voice messages created by AI to imitate senior US officials in a plan to access their personal accounts of state and federal government officials.
In the public service announcement, the FBI may be used to pursue access to the accounts of targets to pursue other government officials or partners and connections and can be used to obtain information or funds.
FBI avoided commenting.
Neither cable nor US officials did not point to a suspicious perpetrator. However, in April, the cable referred to a second effort attributed to a Russian -related hacker, which carries out a campaign of identity hunting campaigns targeting thinkers, Eastern European activists and opponents and former Ministry of Foreign Ministry officials.
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In this experiment, the perpetrator said that the perpetrator has copied a false “@state.gov ve and the logo and branding used by the state diplomatic technology office.
“The actor showed comprehensive information about the department’s naming agreements and internal documents,” he said.
In this campaign, the person served as an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the messages sent to private Gmail accounts.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said industrial partners connected this campaign to a cyber actor associated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
