From Disinformation to Deep Fakes: How Threat Actors Manipulate Reality

2023-03-06 14:04

Deep fakes are expected to become a more prominent attack vector.

Audio deep fakes are created by taking audio files, allocating annotations to the sounds, training an ML model based on the annotations to associate sounds with text and then generating a new audio file.

Deep fakes can also be used for spreading disinformation, i.e false distribution of information to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.

Deep fakes could be used to impersonate world leaders and ignite an attack, or to impersonate a CEO and manipulate a company's stock price.

In other cases, deep fakes enable plausible deniability, in which people could deny all sources of media by claiming they are deep fakes, which creates a social breach of trust.

In addition to these techniques, each one of us can help detect deep fakes by verifying the media source of videos and images we receive.

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