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Brandon Kovaks will demonstrate how digital doubles are created, in real time.
At the upcoming hacker conference DEF CON in Las Vegas, visitors will have a unique opportunity. Brandon Kovaks, Senior specialist at Bishop Fox, will demonstrate how easy it is to create a deepfake video in real time.
The idea for the experiment was born in Kovaks after a sensational case of fraud for $ 25 million. In February of this year, a Hong Kong financier was deceived when he believed that he was communicating via video link with the CFO of his company from London. In fact, it was a deepfake created by intruders.
"I was struck by the technical aspects of this scam and decided to find out how it works," Kovax said in an interview with The Register.
For his experiment, Kovaks attracted a colleague Alete Denis, whose image is well known online thanks to numerous interviews and speeches at conferences. Using publicly available videos and audio recordings featuring Denise, Kovaks created a digital double of her.
A professional DSLR camera, lens, studio lighting, and video processing software were used to generate a realistic deepfake.
The result was so convincing that even the children of Denis did not suspect a trick during a video call through Microsoft Teams. "We called it the ' Turing test for deepfakes'," Kovacs said.
At DEF CON, Kovax will bring a compact "studio in a box" - a set of equipment with wigs, lighting and a green screen. Visitors will be able to personally participate in the creation of deepfakes.
"I will transform people into other characters in real time, putting them in a virtual office environment or interactive environment," Kovaks said.
However, there is a serious purpose behind the entertainment facade. The created deepfakes will serve as material for testing a new tool that is being developed by the DARPA agency as part of the Semantic Forensics program. This tool is designed to detect fake videos.
Wil Corvi, DARPA program manager, said that their platform, which will be presented at DEF CON, allows you to analyze video, audio, images and text for manipulation, revealing their origin.
"We want to help people understand the current methods of such forensic analysis and, in turn, improve our tools," Corvi explained.
Kovaks noted that attackers can use publicly available tools to create deepfakes. For example, DeepFaceLab for training models and creating fake videos, as well as the open source Retrieval-based Voice Conversion (RVC) project for voice assistants.
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At the upcoming hacker conference DEF CON in Las Vegas, visitors will have a unique opportunity. Brandon Kovaks, Senior specialist at Bishop Fox, will demonstrate how easy it is to create a deepfake video in real time.
The idea for the experiment was born in Kovaks after a sensational case of fraud for $ 25 million. In February of this year, a Hong Kong financier was deceived when he believed that he was communicating via video link with the CFO of his company from London. In fact, it was a deepfake created by intruders.
"I was struck by the technical aspects of this scam and decided to find out how it works," Kovax said in an interview with The Register.
For his experiment, Kovaks attracted a colleague Alete Denis, whose image is well known online thanks to numerous interviews and speeches at conferences. Using publicly available videos and audio recordings featuring Denise, Kovaks created a digital double of her.
A professional DSLR camera, lens, studio lighting, and video processing software were used to generate a realistic deepfake.
The result was so convincing that even the children of Denis did not suspect a trick during a video call through Microsoft Teams. "We called it the ' Turing test for deepfakes'," Kovacs said.
At DEF CON, Kovax will bring a compact "studio in a box" - a set of equipment with wigs, lighting and a green screen. Visitors will be able to personally participate in the creation of deepfakes.
"I will transform people into other characters in real time, putting them in a virtual office environment or interactive environment," Kovaks said.
However, there is a serious purpose behind the entertainment facade. The created deepfakes will serve as material for testing a new tool that is being developed by the DARPA agency as part of the Semantic Forensics program. This tool is designed to detect fake videos.
Wil Corvi, DARPA program manager, said that their platform, which will be presented at DEF CON, allows you to analyze video, audio, images and text for manipulation, revealing their origin.
"We want to help people understand the current methods of such forensic analysis and, in turn, improve our tools," Corvi explained.
Kovaks noted that attackers can use publicly available tools to create deepfakes. For example, DeepFaceLab for training models and creating fake videos, as well as the open source Retrieval-based Voice Conversion (RVC) project for voice assistants.
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