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Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

I'm highly doubtful that scammers could get enough real video of multiple employees in the same company to train an AI to pull this off convincingly. Celebrities, yes. Regular people, no

However, Occam's Razor tells me this employee knows exactly where that money went and plans to quietly slip away to a tropical island to retire, after getting fired for being "gullible."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Insider threat. My organization archives our town halls with the President. There are hours of video available on the internal site.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

And if not that, you also have internal meetings where managers love to turn their cameras on.

It also doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Same. Not just town halls, but our internal video archive has thousands of hours of recordings of training, project kickoffs and retros, across hundreds of teams.

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