Ledger / Apr 2025
FBI warns of AI voice messages impersonating senior US officials
Confirmed
FBI IC3 PSA states AI-generated voice messages were used.
Actors sent texts and AI-generated voice messages posing as senior officials to build rapport, then steer targets to other platforms to compromise accounts.
“The malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages”FBI IC3
Sources
- Senior US Officials Impersonated in Malicious Messaging CampaignFBI IC3 · 15 May 2025 · primary source
- Date
- Apr 2025
- Disclosed
- 15 May 2025
- Actor
- unknown (unknown), as attributed by FBI IC3
- Targets
- Current and former senior US federal and state officials and their contacts
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- stated by researcher
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- Ongoing campaign since April 2025 aimed at taking over personal accounts.