{
 "id": "AIR-2025-0183",
 "slug": "scammers-impersonate-italian-defense-minister-with-ai-voice",
 "title": "Scammers Impersonate Italian Defense Minister with AI Voice Clone to Steal Funds",
 "summary": "Fraudsters cloned Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto's voice to solicit ransom payments from business executives, stealing nearly one million euros from one victim. Law enforcement subsequently intervened and froze the transferred funds.",
 "type": "ai_enabled_attack",
 "categories": [
  "deepfake_fraud",
  "ai_phishing_social_engineering"
 ],
 "severity": 4,
 "targets": [
  "individual_victims"
 ],
 "products": [],
 "incident_date": "2025-02-04",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2025-02-04",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/927",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Fraudsters Allegedly Use AI-Generated Voice of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to Scam Business Leaders",
   "published_at": "2025-02-04"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.95,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "deepfake",
  "voice-cloning",
  "social-engineering",
  "fraud"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}