The Synthetic Media Threat: Generative AI and Deepfake Technology enabled Synthetic Media as Emerging Vectors of Cyberterrorism
Cyberterrorism for most part of its academic and general understanding has been known and studied through conventional way such as a) malware deployment b)denial of essential services c) attacks on critical infrastructure, however with rapid changes in information technology as well as recent swift proliferation of generative artificial intelligence and deep fake technologies a completely new and unexamined dimension of threat vector has emerged, further expanding the threat areas are convergence of these two technology which can enable a operator of a cyber-terror campaign even with a very little technical knowledge a chance to deliver a serious threat by using generated synthetic media which can take any form across modality such as a)written text b)Images c)Audios and videos it allows it to happen with high fidelity, while being highly cost effective hence becoming a very potent and dangerous category of cyberterrorism vector it also dramatically lowers the technical barrier to entry for malicious actors.
