Mexico: AI Fraud and Digital Defense

Mexican infectious disease specialist Alejandro Macías Hernández said his voice and image were cloned with artificial intelligence at least 10 times to promote medicines online. AM’s coverage adds that identity theft is already a crime in Guanajuato, but that Article 214-A of the state penal code does not explicitly mention deepfakes.

What did Alejandro Macías Hernández report?

Macías said his visual identity and voice were replicated with AI to sell fraudulent medicines. According to AM, the detected cases now total at least 10, which places the problem in the realm of commercial impersonation rather than an isolated incident.

The reference to Guanajuato’s penal code also raises a specific legal question. Identity theft is covered as a crime in that state, but Article 214-A does not explicitly name deepfakes, according to the cited coverage.

How are some Mexican companies using AI?

Broxel said it uses artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of data, recognize behavior patterns and generate alerts as part of its digital fraud prevention efforts. The company said it applies these tools under governance, privacy and regulatory compliance controls.

What do the regional data cited in the material show?

Data published across several reports point to increasingly broad use of automation in both attacks and defenses. Mexico Business News said ESET recorded Mexico for nearly 70% of the QR phishing activity detected in Latin America in the first half of 2026, although the available result does not specify what share of those campaigns involved AI.

In the same package, Expansión reported, citing data attributed to Incode, that AI-assisted fraud sessions rose from 2% in the first quarter of 2023 to 32% in early 2026. The outlet also said ESET identified banking trojans in Mexico, including Grandoreiro, Casbaneiro and Mispadu, capable of interacting with interbank transfers and online corporate banking platforms.

At the regional level, a report citing ESET said phishing and social engineering accounted for 23.66% of alerts detected in Latin America during the first half of 2026, while malicious downloaders made up 14.94%. The same material added that more than 85% of regional ransomware events mitigated were preventive blocks triggered by generic heuristic detection.

What other AI-linked case appeared in the region?

Mexico Business reported, without official confirmation in the available result, that a ransomware affiliate used an AI-based coding assistant through MCP to carry out actions inside compromised systems. That operation would have affected more than two dozen organizations in six countries, including Mexico, although the source does not identify the Mexican organizations or provide official confirmation of the local incident.