Romanian governor targeted by new deepfake
Fake advertisements push financial investments using Mugur Isărescu’s imagery
The governor of the National Bank of Romania has fallen victim to a deepfake attack for the second time.
Mugur Isărescu’s imagery was used in “cloned” content using a popular newspaper and social network to “convince the public to make financial investments on a website that promotes itself as an automated trading platform”, the central bank wrote in a press release on February 16.
Videos using the governor’s manipulated image and voice first circulated on social networks on February 5, 2024. Back
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