AU-T-01Level 1 · Signal
Targeted by deepfake or AI-generated lures
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A Threat signal from email security (EMAIL, AI-generated content detection): a message aimed at this person was classified as machine-generated, or a cloned voice or video of a colleague reached them.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- ID.RA-03
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1684.001
The definition, in detail
Definition
The lure is fluent and personal.
Example
A treasury analyst gets a voicemail in the CFO's cloned voice asking her to expedite a supplier payment; the gateway had already flagged the matching email as synthetic.
How it is measured
- Source
- Email security
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- AI-generated content detection
- Risk domain
- AI use
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR, FBI IC3
How it is used
Programs count "Targeted by deepfake or AI-generated lures" per person from Email security and read it beside the other AI use signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "targeted by deepfake or AI-generated lures" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
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The initial assessment
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18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.