""The Constella report, based on analysis of 80 billion breached records from 2016 to 2024, highlights a growing reliance on synthetic identities-fake personas created from both real and fabricated data. Once limited to financial scams, these identities are now being used for far more dangerous purposes, including espionage, infrastructure sabotage, and disinformation campaigns. State-backed actors and criminal groups are increasingly using identity fraud to bypass traditional cybersecurity defenses.""
""Identity verification is the foundation of virtually all security systems, digital and physical, and AI is making it easier than ever to undermine this process," Mike Sexton, a Senior Policy Advisor for AI & Digital Technology at national think tank Third Way, tells The Cipher Brief. "AI makes it easier for attackers to simulate real voices or hack and steal private credentials at unprecedented scale. This is poised to exacerbate the cyberthreats the United States faces broadly, especially civilians.""
Identity verification underpins nearly all digital and physical security systems, and AI is enabling attackers to simulate voices and steal credentials at unprecedented scale. Analysis of 80 billion breached records from 2016–2024 shows a growing reliance on synthetic identities—fake personas built from real and fabricated data—now used for espionage, infrastructure sabotage, and disinformation. State-backed actors and criminal groups increasingly use identity fraud to bypass traditional defenses, including cases where stolen administrator credentials allowed year-long surveillance and mapping of an energy firm's operations. Proposed cuts of about 1,083 CISA positions would reduce staffing nearly 30 percent, weakening national resilience against industrialized identity compromise.
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