Scammers are actively using new technologies such as neural networks and deep scams in new schemes to deceive Russians so that residents of the country do not understand a cybercriminal. DEA News Vladislav Tushkanov, Data Science Lead Specialist at Kaspersky Lab.
“Generative networks with pictures and sound can be used to synthesize deep fakes to prove things that don’t exist. And they can be used in fraud,” he said.
As an example, the expert cited fake posts on social networks with a link to a fake page. But now scammers create not pictures, but full-fledged fake videos. “For scammers, this is also an opportunity to make people believe their message,” Tushkanov said.
According to him, the hype around AI chatbots also benefits scammers, as many Russians try to sign up for such services and eventually end up on fake sites.
“Resources were distributed over the network to download the so-called ChatGPT client and instantly get $50. Of course, it was a Trojan horse, not a client, and there are enough such cases at the moment,” he said.
It was previously reported to be on the dark web Deepfake video creation offer to $20,000 (1.6 million rubles at current exchange rate) with any person.