Hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/08/iran-backed-hackers-interrupt-uae-tv-streaming-services-with-deepfake-news

by sandebert • 2 years ago

93 13 2 years ago

theguardian.com

0x006A• 2 years ago

is the video available somewhere?

RamblingCTO• 2 years ago

Would also love to see that!

6510• 2 years ago

SixDouble5321• 2 years ago

I hope to see it too. This is equal parts cool and foreboding.

allenbina• 2 years ago

Begun, the clone wars have.

jasonjayr• 2 years ago

Oh wow. This is the next generation of that Max Headroom signal intrusion. If it can be carefully timed it could appear as if it's just a scene cut to another story, and then disconnected before the original signal resumes the next story.

lenerdenator2• 2 years ago

Methinks Iran might be pissing in a bowl of Cheerios they're not ready to have thrown in their faces. They're entering into a deepfakes arena with several states that have more advanced technological and cyberoffensive capabilities than they do.

actionfromafar• 2 years ago

A very large chunk of the Iranian population already hates their government, not sure how some fake videos would make a difference. Maybe target the loyal somehow?

lenerdenator2• 2 years ago

That or make it so egregious they boil over.

yodon• 2 years ago

Some years ago (2010 +/- 5years?) the organization that administers the Geneva Convention had a conference on whether to classify as a war crime the act or faking video of the head of a county or its military (eg. "I direct my soldiers to surrender").

I can't find a reference to it (perhaps someone else has better Google-fu) but there was an article on it in the NYTimes when it the conference was held.

severine• 2 years ago

This is a 2021 paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3958426 [Deepfake Fight: AI-Powered Disinformation and Perfidy Under the Geneva Conventions]

Maybe there's something in the citations.

jkmcf• 2 years ago

I've been wondering for a while about when country-sponsored, network-base attacks be considered an act of war.

Hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news

Related Stories