AI scammers are now impersonating US government bigwigs, says FBI

With the help of Deepfake, hackers are now focusing on US federal and civil servants by masking themselves as higher American officials in the last Brazen Phishing campaign to steal sensitive data.

Bad actors have been working since April and using Deepfake Voice Message and text messages to the masquerade as higher government officials and establish a relationship with the victims, FBI said In warnings on May 15th.

“If you receive a message claiming to come from a higher US official, do not assume it is authentic,” the agency said.

If US official accounts are at risk, fraud may deteriorate because hackers can “target other government officials or their collaborators and contacts using the trusted contact information they will receive,” the FBI said.

Within these FBI fraud says hackers are trying to access victim’s accounts through malicious links and direct them to it Platforms controlled hackers or websites that steal sensitive data such as passwords.

“Contact information obtained through social engineering programs could also be used to issue contacts to induce information or funds,” the agency added.

Founders of crypt founders focused on independent attacks

In unrelated fraud, Sandeep Narwal, co -founder of blockchain platform Polygon, brought up Alarm in the post of May 13, that bad actors also released him with deep.

Nailwal said “the offensive vector is scary” and left him a little shaken because a few people “called me to a telegram and asked if I called them, and ask them to install a script.”

As part of fraud, the bad actors attacked the telegram of the management of Polygon’s Ventures, Shreyank and Pinged people asked for a jump to the call of the zoom that had Deepfake of Nailwal, Shreyank and third personAccording to Nailwal.

“The sound is deactivated and because your voice doesn’t work, Scammer asks you to install some SDK if you install the game for you,” Nailwal said.

“Another problem is that there is no way to complain about telegram and get their attention on this matter. I understand that they cannot take all these service call services, but there should be a way to do it, perhaps some social way to bring a specific account.”

At least one user replied In the comments they say fraudsters have focused on them while web3 og Dovey Wan said She was also deep in a similar fraud.

FBI and Crypto founder says the vigilance is the key to avoid fraud

Nailwal suggests the best way to avoid cheating these types of fraud is never to install anything during online interaction initiated by another person and keep a separate device specifically for Access to crypto by the cash.

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Meanwhile, FBI says it verifies the identity of anyone who contacts you, will explore all addres by errors or discrepancies AA Check all images and videos on distorted handslegs or unrealistic facial features.

At the same time, the agency never recommends sharing sensitive information with someone you have never encountered, click on links from people you don’t know, and setting up two -factor or multifactor verification.

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