Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Description
Sometime in mid-June 2025, an unknown actor reportedly used AI voice-cloning and text generation to impersonate U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The impostor allegedly contacted at least five high-level officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, via Signal and text messages. The actions reportedly aimed to manipulate targets into sharing sensitive information or account access.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- unknown-actors-impersonating-marco-rubio
- unknown-actors
Alleged Developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
- synthetic-audio-generation-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- united-states-department-of-state
- officials-targeted-by-impersonator-of-marco-rubio
- marco-rubio
- government-of-the-united-states
- epistemic-integrity
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
Classification
Risk Domain
Malicious Actors & MisuseRisk Subdomain
4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
MIT Risk Profile
Source
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