Thieves stole over $240,000 by using voice-mimicking software to trick a company’s employee. The thieves used an AI voice deepfake of a company executive to get the employee to wire money to an offsite account in what researchers say is the first publicly reported AI heist.If you haven’t heard by now, AI technology like deepfakes are able to accurately mimic or copy the likeness and sound of real people. This is what happened to one company’s managing director who received a call from someone he believed was his superior. The superior’s voice told the employee to wire the money to a Hungarian bank account to avoid “late-payment fines.”
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