<story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patwolf</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll:&lt;p&gt;Original story: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2005&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;africa&amp;#x2F;rebels-say-they-hold-us-soldier-hostage.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2005&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;africa&amp;#x2F;rebels-say-t...&lt;/a&gt;
Confirmation of hoax: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;wbna6894934&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;wbna6894934&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn&amp;#x27;t notice and ran the story anyway.&lt;p&gt;I have little faith in our ability to detect deepfakes using these recommendations. It seems we&amp;#x27;ll have to assume something is fake unless we have a way to cryptographically verify its provenience.</text></comment>
<story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1MachineElf</author><text>A recently announced breach at Retool[0] involved the use of a deepfake version of an IT employee&amp;#x27;s voice for social engineering.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37500895&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37500895&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>