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Threat Source newsletter (June 30, 2022) — AI voice cloning is somehow more scary than deepfake videos

Summary: Cisco Talos' Threat Source newsletter notes that AI voice cloning, built from machine learning and archives of a person's speech, has already been used to recreate Val Kilmer's voice in "Top Gun: Maverick" and to support dialogue in Disney+'s "Obi-Wan Kenobi," and that Amazon demonstrated Alexa reading part of a book in a deceased grandmother's voice. The same issue reports that researchers unmasked ransomware actors operating on the dark web, finding most use hosting providers outside their country of origin such as Sweden, Germany and Singapore, and that the Hermit mobile spyware from Italian vendor RCS Labs is targeting Android and iOS users across Europe and Asia.

What you should know: Voice cloning leaves nothing to see, unlike a deepfake video, and the newsletter's own scenario is a scammer duplicating a voice to convince a grandparent that a family member is in danger or needs money - a fraud your call-center and help-desk verification steps were never built to catch.

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