Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes

2026-06-18T20:51:45Zb302336471965f0eb2dc04e163295779535c9b44b1fe5a66c4fc3f5e145ffbe9
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What happened

Collection of CyberScoop items (June 2026) covering active exploitation and policy developments: multiple actors are actively exploiting critical Fortinet FortiSandbox vulnerabilities disclosed in April; the U.S. Commerce Department’s export controls forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide amid debate from security experts about the models’ unique risk; Congress is considering the bipartisan No FAKES Act to curb commercial deepfakes; researchers warn of supply-chain risks after TeamPCP’s attacks on open-source trust models; Google attributed a long-running espionage campaign

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b302336471965f0eb2dc04e163295779535c9b44b1fe5a66c4fc3f5e145ffbe9
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2026-06-18T20:51:45Z
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