"Various groups are keeping their eyes peeled for hacking and information warfare efforts launched in response to an unprecedented U.S. operation conducted over the weekend that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and brought him to New York to face criminal charges. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is continuing to monitor the cyber landscape in the raid's aftermath. In a written statement, CISA acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala did not acknowledge any disinformation tracking, but said that the recent events in Venezuela demand "heightened vigilance" across sectors."
"Following the raid, regional experts anticipated a high volume of synthetic and inaccurate content. Adrián González, co-founder of the Venezuela-based nonprofit news and messaging monitor Cazadores de Fake News, said that much of the content generated by AI tools is coming from users in Venezuela and other Latin American countries, as opposed to more major U.S. adversaries. "There has been a wave of hoaxes created with AI, there is a lot of synthetic content on social media," González said in an interview. "But it is spontaneous: it is content generated"
U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and brought him to New York on criminal charges. Cybersecurity authorities are actively monitoring for hacking and information warfare in the aftermath. CISA emphasized heightened vigilance while noting no specific threat identified so far and pledged coordination with government and industry partners. The agency recently removed employees who tracked false information online amid an internal restructuring. Regional experts expect a surge of synthetic and inaccurate content, with many AI-generated hoaxes originating from Venezuela and other Latin American users rather than from major U.S. adversaries.
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