Deepfake technology has been used to trick an employee at a multinational to authorize a $25.6 million transaction to fraudsters. The worker was invited to a call with several colleagues impersonated.
Artificial intelligence has been used again for nefarious purposes, Hong Kong police have revealed. A finance worker in a multinational firm was asked to make a secret transaction by someone posing as the company’s UK-based chief financial officer and that initial doubts were overcome with deepfake technology.
After getting the phishing email, the worker was invited to a video call with several other people who looked and sounded like his colleagues, however, it was not really them and deepfake technology had been used to just make it look like them.
