ZeroFox Intelligence Brief - Q2 2023 Synthetic Media Update

Product Serial: B-2023-06-16a

TLP:CLEAR

ZeroFox Intelligence researchers address notable updates in synthetic media over the past quarter in this intelligence brief, including observations on tooling, threat actor developments, and overall threats.

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Key Findings

The widespread impact of synthetic media-driven campaigns almost certainly remained limited within the cyber threat landscape in Q2 2023. Nonetheless, threat actors continued to look for ways to leverage synthetic media for fraud, impersonation, extortion and harassment, and the spread of disinformation.
Accessible and easy-to-use open source (OS) tools continued to proliferate, further contributing to the low barriers to entry for creating synthetic content. However, ZeroFox Intelligence observed no new capabilities or tools that significantly changed the overall threat to individuals and organizations.
Threat actors capitalized on the widespread interest in synthetic media tools to commit fraud and deliver malware by using the topic as a lure.
The threat from synthetic media will likely remain broadly consistent over the next quarter; however, ZeroFox Intelligence anticipates that synthetic media-driven disinformation campaigns will increase towards the end of 2023 in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.