{"id":35401,"date":"2025-05-17T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=35401"},"modified":"2025-05-17T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:38:57","slug":"fbi-%e8%ad%a6%e5%91%8aai-%e9%aa%97%e5%b1%80%e5%8d%87%e7%ba%a7%ef%bc%9a%e4%b8%8d%e6%b3%95%e5%88%86%e5%ad%90%e4%bc%9a%e5%81%87%e6%89%ae%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd%e9%ab%98%e5%ae%98%e7%9a%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/35401.html","title":{"rendered":"FBI Warns of Escalating 'AI Scams': Crooks Will Fake the Voices of Top U.S. Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >USA<\/a> CNBC reported on May 16 that the FBI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/fbi\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH [FIB] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >FBI<\/a>) issued a warning on Thursday local time that \"malicious actors\" are falsely<strong>Pretending to be a high-ranking U.S. official and using<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> Generated voice messages targeting current and former government officials and their contacts.The FBI cautioned in its announcement, \"If you receive a message purporting to be from a senior U.S. official, do not rely on its authenticity.\"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35402\" title=\"02c7cfa1j00swe4zp001od000v900kfp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02c7cfa1j00swe4zp001od000v900kfp.jpg\" alt=\"02c7cfa1j00swe4zp001od000v900kfp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"735\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From last month.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%af%88%e9%aa%97\" title=\"[Sees articles containing [fraud] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Scams<\/a>who disguised themselves as senior U.S. officials through text and AI voice messages.<strong>Attempts to gain access to personal accounts by establishing contact with the target<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement states that the scammers do this by sending victims a malicious link, claiming that the link will take the conversation<strong>Transfer to a new platform to gain access to their account<\/strong>. Once a U.S. official's personal or government accounts are accessed, malicious actors may use the stolen information to further attack other officials or their associates.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also noted that \"contact information obtained through social engineering tactics may be used to impersonate a contact person to entice the target to<strong>Disclosure of personal information or transfer of funds<\/strong>.\" Currently, most of the targets of this scam are<strong>Current or former senior U.S. federal or state government officials and their contacts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the FBI had warned that criminals were using generative AI technologies to commit financial fraud on a larger scale. Such technologies not only generate text, images, audio, and video, but can also be used to lure victims into sending money, falling victim to sexual blackmail, and more.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FBI, the top three categories of cybercrime in 2024 will be phishing, extortion and personal information leakage. According to the data, the elderly group suffered the greatest losses, close to $5 billion (note: the current exchange rate is about 36.039 billion yuan).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning Thursday local time that \"malicious actors\" are masquerading as senior U.S. officials and using AI-generated voice messages to target current and former government officials and their contacts, CNBC reported on May 16.The FBI cautioned in its announcement: \"If you receive a message claiming to be from a senior U.S. official, do not rely on its authenticity.\" Beginning last month, scammers have been masquerading as high-ranking U.S. officials through text messages and AI voice messages in an attempt to gain access to personal accounts by establishing contact with their targets. The announcement states that scammers gained access to their accounts by sending victims a malicious link claiming that the link would transfer the conversation to a new platform. Once access to the U.S.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,5338,236,1176],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-35401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-fbi","tag-236","tag-1176"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35401"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=35401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}