Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations

Cybersecurity Information Sheet

By: NSA FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Narrated by: Tom Brooks

Deepfakes are AI-generated, highly realistic synthetic media that can be abused to:

• Threaten an organization’s brand
• Impersonate leaders and financial officers
• Enable access to networks, communications, and sensitive information

Threats from synthetic media, such as deepfakes, present a growing challenge for all users of modern technology and communications, including National Security Systems (NSS), the Department of Defense (DoD), the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and national critical infrastructure owners and operators.

As with many technologies, synthetic media techniques can be used for both positive and malicious purposes. While there are limited indications of significant use of synthetic media techniques by malicious state-sponsored actors, the increasing availability and efficiency of synthetic media techniques available to less capable malicious cyber actors indicate these types of techniques will likely increase in frequency and sophistication.

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