Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda
Date: 2024-12-13
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Matryoshka, Operation Overload, Reliable Russian News, Russian Entities Linked To Gru, Storm 1679
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #909: Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Matryoshka, Operation Overload, Reliable Russian News, Russian Entities Linked To Gru, Storm 1679. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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