{"id":21343,"date":"2025-09-14T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21343\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:06:09","slug":"north-korean-hackers-used-chatgpt-to-help-forge-deepfake-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/21343\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Hackers Used ChatGPT to Help Forge Deepfake ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document to attack a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Attackers used the artificial intelligence tool to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card in order to create a realistic-looking image meant to make a phishing attempt seem more credible, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genians.co.kr\/en\/blog\/threat_intelligence\/deepfake\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">research published Sunday<\/a> by Genians, a South Korean cybersecurity firm. Instead of including a real image, the email linked to malware capable of extracting data from recipients\u2019 devices, according to Genians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,460,72,3312,18803,16101,61,60,14849,8874,18802,58,541,80,386],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-august","tag-business","tag-cybersecurity","tag-homeland-security","tag-human-rights","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-military","tag-north-korea","tag-social-media","tag-south-korea","tag-technology","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}