Ledger / 19 Sep 2024
Senator Cardin targeted by deepfake of Ukraine's ex-foreign minister
Strong
Senate security notice called it an apparent deepfake; attribution and tooling unconfirmed.
Cardin's office joined a Zoom with a live audio-video likeness of Dmytro Kuleba that began asking out-of-character political questions. Russia was suspected by briefed people.
“Sen. Ben Cardin says he was targeted by apparent deepfake call”NBC News
Sources
- Sen. Ben Cardin says he was targeted by apparent deepfake callNBC News · 25 Sep 2024 · secondary source
- Date
- 19 Sep 2024
- Disclosed
- 23 Sep 2024
- Actor
- unknown (unknown), as attributed by NBC News
- Targets
- US Senate Foreign Relations Chair Ben Cardin
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- unknown
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- Call ended when the fake began pressing on long-range missiles; State Dept confirmed it was not Kuleba. FBI investigating.