Kimsuky Group Uses AI-Generated Military ID Deepfakes in Phishing
Deepfake ID generator
A known threat group carried out a targeted phishing campaign using AI-generated deepfake military identification cards. The malicious emails distributed secondary malware payloads disguised as office updates.
- first report
- 17 Jul 2025
- last update
- 17 Jul 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-07-17North Korea's Kimsuky Group Reportedly Uses AI-Generated Military ID Deepfakes in Phishing CampaignAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1208
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- AI phishing / social engineeringDeepfake fraud
- severity
- 3 · Confirmed exploitation
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 17 Jul 2025 · first reported 17 Jul 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Kimsuky Group Uses AI-Generated Military ID Deepfakes in Phishing https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/kimsuky-group-uses-ai-generated-military-id-deepfakes-in-phi · AIR-2025-0090 · closed 2025-07-31 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-07-17 - AI role: AI-enabled attack - Products: Deepfake ID generator ## Summary A known threat group carried out a targeted phishing campaign using AI-generated deepfake military identification cards. The malicious emails distributed secondary malware payloads disguised as office updates. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-07-17: North Korea's Kimsuky Group Reportedly Uses AI-Generated Military ID Deepfakes in Phishing Campaign (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1208) ## Sources - 2025-07-17 AI Incident Database: North Korea's Kimsuky Group Reportedly Uses AI-Generated Military ID Deepfakes in Phishing Campaign https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1208 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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