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incidents/AIR-2025-0147

FBI Warns of AI Voice Cloning Campaign Targeting Officials

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI phishing / social engineeringDeepfake fraud

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.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI phishing / social engineeringprimary
    Phishing, lures and social engineering produced or personalised at scale with AI.
  • Deepfake fraud
    Synthetic voice, video or images used to impersonate people for fraud, extortion or access.
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Enterprise deployment, Individuals
products
voice cloning tools
incident date
15 May 2025
first reported
15 May 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
vishing · smishing · voice-cloning · credential-theft
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-05-15
    FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1077

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