Deepfakes: A Present Danger to Cybersecurity

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Deepfake is a video of a person who has been digitally manipulated in such that they appear to be someone else. Deepfakes can be employed maliciously to disseminate erroneous information. It is the 21st century’s answer to Photoshopping. It uses a subset of machine learning called Deep learning to make images/videos of fake events. The biggest achievement of the project was the subject's eyebrows not moving when the audio ceased playing. Previously, the deep fake was easier to see because it was unnatural when the subject continued to move while the subject was silent.