The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) warned of the continued proliferation of deepfakes and cyber attacks this year with the coming of the mid-term elections and the widespread use of artificial intelligence.
At the conference titled, “Forging Collaborative Cyber Resilience: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Democratic Institution,” scheduled on March 11-12 at the Turf Room of the Manila Polo Club, Makati City, CICC disclosed that it has been detecting between 200 to 300 deepfakes daily.
“Elections are just a few weeks away, and I think that’s the thing that we have to address right now, because it will spell the big difference of how we’re going to go into the future of the country,” CICC Executive Director Alexander K. Ramos said.
“We are facing a challenge on artificial intelligence and deepfakes creating havoc,” he said.
Ramos was a speaker in the first conference panel titled, “Assessing the Cyber Threat Landscape in the Philippines.” The event was organized by the Stratbase Institute and the Embassy of Canada.
In line with it’s the Whole-of-Society Approach to suppress the proliferation of deepfakes, the CICC is collaborating with stakeholders for the establishment of a nation-wide task force composed of representatives government agencies, technology companies, media organizations, educational institutions, and civil society.
“We are now working on some guidelines on the reporting mechanism for this. But the tools we have acquired are for distribution,” Ramos said.
CICC has recently procured new software to detect deepfakes in 30 seconds and with 95 percent accuracy rate.
Among members of the diplomatic community present at the cyber security conference were Canadian Ambassador David Hartman, New Zealand Ambassador Catherine McIntosh, Vietnam Ambassador Lai Thai Binh, Czech Ambassador Karel Hejc, and Finland Ambassador Saija Nurminen.
ISSUED BY CICC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALEXANDER K. RAMOS
