AI signaling threat detection, deepfake voice detection, autonomous SOC.
With the Release 16 freeze on 3 July 2020, 3GPP completed its Enablers for Network Automation (eNA) work, defining the 5G Core Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) in TS 23.288 — including abnormal UE behaviour analytics that operators can feed into policy and security decisions.
Days before the New Hampshire primary, a cloned AI voice of President Biden urged Democrats not to vote. The FCC responded within weeks by ruling that AI-generated voices are "artificial" under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act — making AI voice robocalls illegal outright.
A multinational firm's Hong Kong branch lost $25.6 million (HK$200M) after an employee was deceived into authorizing wire transfers during a video conference where every other participant was an AI-synthesized real-time deepfake.
In May 2024, WPP chief executive Mark Read disclosed that fraudsters had used a voice clone and YouTube footage of him in a Microsoft Teams meeting, set up via a WhatsApp account bearing his photo, to try to get an agency leader to set up a new business and hand over money and personal details; the attempt failed. On 8 May 2024 the FBI San Francisco field office warned of escalating AI-enabled phishing and voice/video cloning scams.