Deepfake Social Engineering: When You Can't Trust Your Own Eyes
Your CFO joins a video call with the Hong Kong finance team. She asks them to execute a series of wire transfers totaling $25 million. Her face, her voice, her mannerisms. The team complies. The entire call was a deepfake.
This happened to Arup, the British engineering firm, in early 2024. The attackers recreated the CFO and several other executives using publicly available video footage. Every person on that call except the target was synthetic.