While cyber attacks increase its threat day by day, a new threat called DeepFake, which has entered our lives recently, strengthens its existence in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with the image of another person using artificial neural networks. According to the new report published, DeepFake is a major threat to the future of cybersecurity.
According to the annual Global Incident Response Threat Report published by VMware, reports of attacks using face and voice manipulation technology have increased by 13 percent in the past year. In addition, 66 percent of cybersecurity experts surveyed for this year’s report stated that they see DeepFake as a threat.
DeepFake entered our lives in 2019. The technology, which can believably recreate people’s faces and voices, can be used specifically for pornography, while the technology can also be used to create political turmoil. In fact, a video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling his soldiers to surrender to the Russian forces was posted on social media channels last March, and was later removed from the channels on the grounds that it was made with DeekFake.
According to VMware’s research, while DeepFake accounted for 78 percent of cyberattacks via e-mail last year, the company states that more attention should be paid to this issue and counter-steps should be taken in cybersecurity.
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