{
 "id": "AIR-2025-0147",
 "slug": "fbi-warns-of-ai-voice-cloning-campaign-targeting-officials",
 "title": "FBI Warns of AI Voice Cloning Campaign Targeting Officials",
 "summary": "Malicious actors utilized AI-generated voice messages and smishing tactics to impersonate senior U.S. officials and target government personnel. The campaign aimed to execute social engineering and credential theft.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering",
  "deepfake_fraud"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "enterprise_deployment",
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [
  "voice cloning tools"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2025-05-15",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2025-05-15",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1077",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices",
   "published_at": "2025-05-15"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.95,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "vishing",
  "smishing",
  "voice-cloning",
  "credential-theft"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}