The bad actors
have stepped up their game with perhaps the most potentially devastating
cyber ruse of all – the high-tech “Deepfake” videos...
Deepfake videos are
the residue of new internet technology that supplies almost anyone the
ability to alter reality so that subjects can be manipulated to say
anything the hacker wants, from the ludicrous and inflammatory to the
downright incriminating...appears so real it is
almost impossible to spot the bogus video.
The potential security impact
of these altered videos has both the federal government and the U.S.
Intelligence community on high alert...
“This started several years ago with fake videos and then it turned into
Deepfake videos and it’s currently progressing to deep portrait
videos,” says Bob Anderson, who is a Principal in The Chertoff Group’s
global Strategic Advisory Services and a former national security
executive and former Executive Assistant Director with the FBI...
“This is a potentially huge national security threat for a variety of
reasons. Picture telecommunication calls or video conference calls that
an adversary could potentially interject a fake deep portrait video of a
three-star general or CEO of a company directing members of that
company or organization to partake in potential detrimental national
security or criminal actions,” Anderson says. “Nation-states like
Russia, China and Iran could potentially utilize this technology for a
variety of counterintelligence, corporate espionage, economic espionage
and political influence campaigns across the United States.” more
