The Emerging Dynamics of Deepfake Scam Campaigns on the Web
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Feed Name: Palo Alto Networks Unit 42
Date Published: 2024-08-29
Date Updated: 2026-04-28
Author: Lucas Hu, Nabeel Mohamed, Billy Melicher, Alex Starov, Howard Tong, Kyle Wilhoit and Shehroze Farooqi
This Unit42 report documents a global, organized campaign of web-based deepfake scams that impersonate CEOs, news anchors, and government officials to push fake investment schemes and giveaways; researchers mapped shared video-hosting infrastructure and CDNs, enumerated hundreds of malicious domains and video URLs, provided IoCs and examples across multiple countries and languages, and described attacker TTPs and user impact.
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