RFA perspectives – Deepfake and AI videos are created from tools that can be downloaded. North Korean pirates already use the same tools as a weapon.
Recently, the Cybersecurity Company of South Korea, the geniuses of Cybersecurity, revealed that a North Korean hacking group had used Deepfake military identifiers generated by the AI to usurp the identity of the defense agencies and launch phishing attacks.
Their targets? Officials, journalists, human rights activists and researchers.
This is not new.
North Korean IT workers have long used AI and Deepfake factories to build false identities, which even steals American identities to apply for jobs.
They appear in video interviews with faces and voices made by AI.
Cybersecurity expert Dawid Moczadło, co-founder of Vidoc, shared a video on LinkedIn who, according to experts, shows these workers in action.
At first glance, it looks real, but if you look closely, something feels turned off.
If these workers are hired, they do not allow you to perceive a pay check.
They can plant malware, steal business data and strengthen money to North Korea’s arms programs, allows sanctions to dodge the regime.
AI can make it easier for everyone.
But in the hands of North Korea, it becomes a weapon – the one that threatens your personal data, your private companies and even national security.
To find out more about the pirates of North Korea, watch the series in three parts of RFA Korean “Whack a mole”: