- Study reports explosion of deepfake attacks
- Using tools like ChatGPT is also a game-changer
- Regulatory measures must be taken urgently
The company ID R&D has just published an alarming survey concerning deepfake attacks targeting companies. 42% of companies surveyed say they have been victims. A figure that challenges and seems abnormally high, but that we are forced to take our word for it.
Concretely, malicious actors can in particular use false images or sound to circumvent security protocols. In certain extreme cases, audio or video extracts can deceive the vigilance of an employee or make him believe that he is talking to his boss.
Deepfakes are spreading everywhere
Unsurprisingly, 90% of companies say they are very concerned about this new and very pernicious type of hack. In fact, we know that deepfakes are also unfortunately increasingly used in the context of romance scams, and this should only increase in the future with the development of these AIs which can reproduce the voice of a person to infinity thanks to a few seconds of recording.
ChatGPT-like language models are also a cybersecurity concern. As we explained to you recently, they are indeed formidable for writing very credible phishing e-mails. They can generate error-free texts on any subject, and in many languages.
These AIs can also simplify the creation and distribution of ransomware, as Suleyman Ozarslan, security researcher and co-founder of Picus Security recently explained: “It’s bad enough that ransomware code is available for people to buy ‘off the shelf’ on the dark web; now virtually anyone can create it themselves. »
“No quick fix”
Faced with this threat, many experts are in favor of AI-based cybersecurity solutions. Governments will also have a role to play and they will have to regulate these new technologies in order to avoid all the abuses that we can already spot.
But as Josh A. Goldstein, a researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, recently explained: “We need more research, analysis and testing to better determine which mitigations are desirable and to highlight the mitigations we have overlooked. We don’t have miracle solutions..
In any case, it is advisable to be aware of the dangers and to keep a critical mind in all circumstances, which is of course not always easy.
Pair : Bitdefender
