MANILA – An investigation by the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) into the deepfake of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is pointing at an individual source, not an attack from a foreign country.
Assistant Secretary Mary Rose Magsaysay, the CICC Deputy Executive Director, said Monday that the investigation is looking for a person and is not after China or any other country.
“Bad people, they like to hit governments, because it makes them famous. ‘Yun ang nakikita ko diyan (that’s what I see here),” Magsaysay said during the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing over People's Television Network.
The attack happening in time for the 39th Balikatan military exercises is likely a coincidence, she said.
“Definitely not [involving Balikatan]. Because it’s an exercise you have been doing for so many years. And for the creation of this one, is nagkataon lang na nandito sila (they just happened to be here),” she said.
She assured that the CICC is equipped to find whoever created the deepfake videos and audios of Marcos using digital forensic laboratories, adversarial AI (artificial intelligence), and other tools.
“We have about 10 [digital laboratories] already in the agency, ano pa lang iyon ha, in one agency pa lang (and that’s only for one agency),” she said.
The CICC, she said, works with the Philippine National Police and the Department of Information of Communications Technology in the investigation. (PNA)
