Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

The worry over deepfake technology being used during times of major upheaval has been alluded to frequently over the last couple of years. The buildup to the US election was peppered by “any moment now…” style warnings of dramatic and plausible deepfake deployment. As a matter of fact, deepfake activity began immediately.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2022

Despite continued warnings of deepfake chaos during major events, things haven’t worked out the way some thought. Those video deepfakes are bad, and they remain bad. As much as we over dramatise their use in our heads, the video aspect of deepfaking has a long way to go to pull the proverbial wool over our eyes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 16 – Russia’s disinformation uses deepfake video of Zelenskyy telling people to lay down arms. Russia’s disinformation uses deepfake video of Zelenskyy telling people to lay down arms.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2023

The response to this was an assortment of countermeasures that involve analysing vocals for bits and pieces of data which could signify the presence of a deepfake. The Waterloo researchers have taken the game of cat and mouse a step further with their own counter-counermeasure that removes the data characterstic of deepfakes.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

False Negatives, Deepfakes and Other Concerns. Another major challenge for the emerging technology is the apparent susceptibility of some well-known facial recognition APIs to deepfakes , which may limit the technology’s use for the most sensitive applications in environments where deepfakes could be used to gain unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users.

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Data breaches 73