A criminal used Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources to imitate the voice and writing style of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in communications with several American and foreign officials, with the aim of gaining access to sensitive information, according to information published by the American press on Tuesday (8).
A memorandum sent by Rubio’s office directed to Rubio -headed agency and obtained by The Washington Post reveals that the impostor “contained at least five people outside the department, including three foreign officials, a US governor and a congressman.”
The authorities are still unaware of the identity of the impostor, who, as they believe, tried to manipulate their interlocutors to “gain access to information or accounts,” according to the document obtained, dated 3 July.
O Post He also published that attempts at identity fraud were confirmed to the newspaper by a high -ranking employee of the State Department and would have started in mid -June, through text messaging applications such as the Signala safe way of communication widely used by members of the American Administration.
The impostor created an account with the username “marco.rubio@state.gov” to try to deceive foreign and American diplomats and politicians.
“The individual left voice messages on the sign for at least two people and, on one occasion, sent them a text message inviting them to communicate,” details the memorandum of the State Department, which also states that other portfolio staff were also the target of forgery through a fraudulent email.
Given the “post” questions, the State Department did not share details about the communications or the employees involved, but insisted that “it would conduct an exhaustive investigation and continue to implement security measures to prevent this from happening again.”
The attempted Rubio Identity Fraud occurred after several security incidents involving President Donald Trump’s government officials.
In May, an individual, unidentified so far, got access to the phone of the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, from where he called and sent messages to senators, governors and executives from companies as if he were the employee herself, which triggered an FBI investigation, according to “The Wall Street Journal reports”.
In the US, falsifying the identity of a federal employee or employee in order to deceive or get something in return is a crime that can lead to up to three years in prison.
The Signal messaging app was also the scene of a recent political scandal, when in March a journalist was mistakenly added to a group where several Trump government officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shared highly classified military information.
