Federal law enforcement officials are raising a lot of concern about an ongoing cybercrime operation involving threat actors impersonating senior figures across the American political landscape, including state government leaders, White House officials, Cabinet members, and congressional members.
These threat actors continue to impersonate senior figures in the American political landscape.
Based on information provided by the FBI, the social engineering campaign has been operating since at least 2023.
The campaign relies on a calculated mix of both text-based and voice-based social engineering techniques, with attackers using smishing and increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence-generated voice messages to bolster their legitimacy.
There have been no shortages of victims in this operation, not only government officials, but also their family members and personal contacts, demonstrating the breadth of the operation and its persistence.
Often when fraudsters initiate contact, they reference familiar or contextually relevant topics in order to elude detection while moving the fraud forward with the threat of taking down the target on encrypted messaging platforms. This tactic is often used to evade detection and further advance the fraud.
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