Posted on 07/08/2025 8:36:31 PM PDT by lasereye
Someone using artificial intelligence to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted at least five people, including three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress, “with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” a US diplomatic cable said.
The cable advises diplomats worldwide that they “may wish to warn external partners that cyber threat actors are impersonating State officials and accounts.” The impersonation of the top US diplomat is one of “two distinct campaigns” being tracked at the State Department “in which threat actors impersonate Department personnel via email and commercial messaging apps to target individuals’ personal accounts,” the cable, dated last Thursday, advised.
According to the cable, the unknown actor posing as Rubio created an account in mid-June on the messaging platform Signal, using the display name “marco.rubio@state.gov,” as part of “an effort to impersonate Secretary of State Rubio.”
“The actor left voicemails on Signal for at least two targeted individuals, and in one instance, sent a text message inviting the individual to communicate on Signal,” said the cable, which was first reported by the Washington Post.
“The actor likely aimed to manipulate targeted individuals using AI-generated text and voice messages, with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” it said.
The effort resembled investigated past activity to impersonate senior US officials, the cable said. That activity was under FBI investigation. CNN reported in May that a law enforcement investigation into efforts to impersonate President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was underway.
External partners can report Rubio impersonations to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, the cable said. Internally, State Department personnel were advised to report impersonation attempts to diplomatic security.
A State Department spokesperson said the agency “is aware of this incident and is currently investigating the matter.”
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Does this mean Saturday Night Live is finished?
There’s a radio comedian whose Trump impersonation is so great they have to say “that was an impersonation.”
On the late Don Imus Show he joked that the daily Richard Nixon guy was so good that in a few days “or since this is an NBC owned show, six or eight months, they’ll be shocked to find we really haven’t had Richard Nixon as a guest every day.”
They caught on when Henry Kissinger kept replying to the phony Rubio.
And so it begins. Real ID the likes you’ve never seen before.
I think I saw an A.I. generated video of Trump telling reporters to back off on the Epstein questions.
Get your tux pressed and your shoes shined for the red carpet.
You’re gonna get for a FReepy nomination for that one.
“marco.rubio@state.gov” is not even the correct email address format for State personnel. If he even has a personal email acct there, it is most likely “rubioma@state.gov”. Regardless, using that fake address to respond to him would send the email to the bit bucket or a special mailbox and investigated.
Off Topic: Forgive me.
It seems like very few new articles are coming onto Free Republic this evening. I have been seeing the same four or five ‘most recent’ stories for the last few hours.
Maybe it’s just a slow day.
I keep checking back, and hours later, I’m still seeing the same AI impersonation of Marco story and that other “It’s time to call Antifa a terrorist org.!”
Ok. What else, you got?
Of course, using that fake address on Signal is a different story. After the snafu with Hegseth, no one in government should be using Signal for official traffic anyway at this point.
Could it possibly be that it is getting late
and FReepers are going to bed?
You must be on the west coast.
It is 1:30 AM on the east coast.
I am only up now because I had to wait
for the Braves game to end to see
how they managed to lose this one...
Maybe that’s it. On Pacific Time, it now 10.37 pm. Time for one last smoke, and/or emergency snack before bed by 11.30 or midnight. One last quick look at World News
Probably someone from ABC ,they seem to be really stupid lately.
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