Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.
I’m at the point in the calendar year where I’m a sponge for NFL content. I couldn’t be happier to escape from my six-month American football-free slumber and am ready to watch games three days a week and listen to NFL podcasts or read power rankings the other four.
So of course, I wasn’t going to miss this feature in Dark Reading from the NFL’s chief information security officer, which just happens to include several shoutouts to Talos and Cisco. Talos is a valuable security partner with the NFL, helping secure their major events like the NFL Draft and Super Bowl, the most-watched entertainment event in the U.S. every year.
One of the things that Tomás Maldonado said in the Dark Reading interview really stood out to me — that he’s worried about deepfakes of NFL players being used in scams. Deepfakes have been making the rounds for years in scams of celebrities and politicians seeming to ask for various things (often money), and Maldonado said he’s worried that attackers could start using the likenesses of popular NFL players for scams and spam.
I actually hadn’t realized that deepfakes had already been around in the NFL sphere for a while, though.
In an ESPN “30 for 30” documentary in 2021, the creators used deepfake, AI voices for former Raiders owner Al Davis and former commissioner Pete Rozelle, who both died many years before the creation of this documentary. Public turns worried about deepfakes
