Deepfakes are fueling sophisticated cyber attacks on US officials and founders of cryptocurrencies

A new type of cyber attacks are becoming increasingly important in which social engineering is combined with AI-generated Deepfakes to attack government employees and leading personalities from the cryptocurrency industry.

In the past few weeks the FBI has Warnings Published in front of a trendy trend: fraudsters are out of high-ranking US officials and use fake audio recordings and messages to make victims to reveal sensitive data.

This stitch has been in circulation since April. The fraudsters try to tempt officials to click on malignant links or to register on fake platforms to steal passwords. If this is successful, the hackers receive access to official contact lists and can increase the potential damage by pretending to be trustworthy people in follow -up attacks.

In the meantime, industry representatives are also under fire in the crypto world. Sandeep Nailwal, co -founder of polygon, reported a frightening fraud with fake video calls in which he and other team members were wrongly seen on the screen. In reality, the victims were forced to download malignant software during silent zoom calls that were orchestrated by attackers who had hijacked legitimate telegram accounts.

Nailwal was frustrated about the lack of possibilities to act on platforms such as Telegram, where the registration mechanisms are limited. Other prominent web3 personalities, including Dovey Wan, have also confirmed that they have become victims of similar fraud stitches.

Since Deepfake technology becomes increasingly convincing and accessible, cybercriminals go beyond email phishing and now target their victims through highly realistic imitations across several channels.