FBI Warns of AI Voice Cloning Campaign Targeting Officials

# FBI Warns of AI Voice Cloning Campaign Targeting Officials

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/fbi-warns-of-ai-voice-cloning-campaign-targeting-officials · AIR-2025-0147 · closed 2025-05-29

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation)
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2025-05-15
- AI role: AI-enabled attack

## Summary

Malicious actors utilized AI-generated voice messages and smishing tactics to impersonate senior U.S. officials and target government personnel. The campaign aimed to execute social engineering and credential theft.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-05-15: FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1077)

## Sources

- 2025-05-15 AI Incident Database: FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1077

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