South Korea's election watchdog warned on Monday that the parliamentary elections in April could be marred by artificial intelligence-generated deepfake campaigns aimed at influencing voters. The country's recently amended Elections Act bans the use of deepfakes for election campaigning.
Twenty technology giants including Google and Meta pledged Friday to combat the presence of artificially generated deepfake content meant to deceive voters as more than 4 billion people in more than 70 countries prepare for elections this year.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it's too easy for fraudsters to launch "child in trouble" and romance scams, so it has proposed rule-making that would give the agency new authority to sue in federal court any technology providers that facilitate impersonation fraud.
A watchdog report reveals how Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO Shan Hanes allegedly defrauded a local church and investment club in Kansas out of $47.1 million through a "pig-butchering" cryptocurrency scam that ultimately caused the bank to fail in 2023.
A federal government IT modernization funding program is looking to invest in projects that will help hasten the implementation of artificial intelligence to improve efficiencies and service delivery among government agencies. It will favor proposals with budgets under $6 million.
With over 1 billion people across more than 50 countries - including the U.S., the U.K. and India - due to hold elections this year, one open question remains: How can nations combat adversaries who attempt to influence elections or otherwise interfere via physical, cyber or operational means?
The Filipino government has accused China-based threat actors of hacking into the websites of a half-dozen government entities and infiltrating government email systems. DICT officials said the hackers used China-based IP addresses and the services of Chinese telecom firm Unicom to mount attacks.
A U.K. parliamentary committee scrutinizing the artificial intelligence market urged the British competition regulator to closely monitor developers of foundation models and warned against regulatory capture. Already, the market is trending toward consolidation, said a House of Lords committee.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol expects North Korea to interfere with the upcoming legislative elections and warned citizens to prepare for waves of cyberattacks, fake news and disinformation. Investigators believe North Korea conducted 80% of the attacks on public sector organizations in 2023.
U.S. federal prosecutors charged a Florida teenager allegedly involved in a cryptocurrency theft scam that stole at least $800,000 from a minimum of five victims. The suspect, Noah Michael Urban, 19, is part of a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider or 0ktapus, reported Brian Krebs.
Multiple Information Sharing and Analysis Centers decried a proposed incident reporting measure for vendors selling to the U.S. federal government as being costly and ineffective. The proposal will affect three of every four contracts in which the government is a contracting party.
Hackers will use AI to carry out disinformation campaigns on a daily basis by mid-2024, potentially affecting political outcomes across over 50 countries. The results of the elections this year in powerful economies have real-world impact on human rights and international relations.
Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, said during an event at the 2024 World Economic Forum that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to "dramatically accelerate and amplify the erosion of information integrity."
Switzerland's federal government reports that multiple federal agencies' public-facing sites were temporarily disrupted by distributed denial-of-service attacks perpetrated by a self-proclaimed Russian hacktivist group "as a means of gaining media attention for their cause."
OpenAI said it is taking steps to prevent use of its models in online influence operations throughout the 2024 election season, amid growing concerns about election security and increasing fears that political deepfakes and AI-generated election misinformation could significantly disrupt democracy.
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