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What is the chance that a CFO gets in touch with a deepfake specialist and they split the profits? I’m not saying that this is what happened, I’m more focused o
by thih9 3y ago
What is the chance that a CFO gets in touch with a deepfake specialist and they split the profits? I’m not saying that this is what happened, I’m more focused on future scenarios.
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- willcipriano 3y agoI thought the value of these types of people are their people skills. Nobody would accuse me of great people skills and while I'd like to point to my technical acumen as the reason I can spot fakes like this easily, it's my primate brain that knows something is wrong.
- mvc 3y agoApparently the victim spotted it as a fake too. And then did what they thought was necessary to confirm the instruction.
- thih9 3y agoJust like security specialists can follow a phishing link, I'm sure employees with good people skills can be conned into sharing details with a deepfake colleague. Social engineering works because people think they could spot it.
- thih9 3y agoOr even better: have CEO & COO hold a secret emergency meeting with the CFO; after the money transfer the CEO & COO deny everything, claim they weren't there and were deepfaked.