Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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.
- Date it happened
- 2025-06-15
- Organisation involved
- Unknown actors impersonating Marco Rubio, Unknown actors
- Product, system or model
- Signal, Deepfake technology developers, Synthetic audio generation technology developers
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