How deepfakes ‘hack the humans’ (and corporate networks)


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Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Once crude and expensive, deepfakes are now a rapidly rising cybersecurity threat. A UK-based firm lost $243,000 thanks to a deepfake that replicated a CEO’s voice so accurately that the person on the other end authorized a fraudulent wire transfer. A similar “deep voice” attack that precisely mimicked a company director’s distinct accent cost another company $35 million. Maybe even more frightening, the CCO of crypto company Binance reported that a “sophisticated hacking team” used video from...