The war between Ukraine and Russia does not continue only at the front. At the same time, the intelligence services of the countries and their agents and 3rd party hackers also play a critical role. One of the biggest examples of this has been deciphered today. Allegedly, Russian agents disguised as the Prime Minister of Ukraine with deepfake technology tried to meet with Haluk Bayraktar.
Russian agents disguised as Denis Şmihal and tried to meet with Haluk Bayraktar!
In the past period, we have encountered many positive and negative aspects of the deepfake method. But we often see that it is tried to be used for fraud. For example, we see Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, or Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, on YouTube or a different platform.
The scammers posing as such celebrities with deepfakes say they are running a campaign and ask the audience to send Bitcoin or Ethereum to their crypto wallets. In return, they say they will pay twice as much. Of course, people who see Musk in a bloody way also fall into this trap.
European giant Bayraktar lined up for TB2!
Italy, which is among the greatest powers of NATO, also included Bayraktar TB2 SİHAs among its future plans it shared today.
But today’s situation is much more interesting. According to the video we shared below, the agents of the Russian intelligence service manage to masquerade as Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shimal using the deepfake method.
Then they try to meet with Baykar General Manager Haluk Bayraktar. However, their identities are exposed because they cannot give the correct answers to the secret-coded questions directed by the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency (GUR).
You can see the event that took place after the 53rd second of the video we shared below.
shiftdelete.netWhat is deepfake and how does it work?
Deepfake is a word derived from the combination of the words “deep learning” (deep learning) and “fake” (fake). Thanks to this process, which is performed using artificial intelligence, a face map of one person – artificial neural networks – is extracted using photos or videos and replaced with a digitally exported face map of another person.
We have seen the similarity of this method, which is very difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, in the cinema industry in the past period. For example, after Paul Walker died, his brother played his part. But when we watch the movie, we see Paul Waker.
In the video we shared below, you see someone playing Tom Cruise with the deepfake method.
shiftdelete.netIs using deepfake a crime?
If the person does not have consent or if the artificial neural map copied without consent is used for the purpose of committing a crime without permission, it is a crime within the scope of TCK art.
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