The Age Of Deepfake-Enabled Cyberattacks Is Here

Imagine you’re sifting through emails toward the end of a long day, and you get a message from your company’s CEO inviting you to an urgent Zoom call. You hop on and are greeted by your CEO’s unmistakable voice, telling you that there’s been a mix-up with payment on an invoice for a very important vendor. If we don’t get payment settled today, they’ll freeze service. He gives you the payment details, account and routing number, and thanks you for helping out in a pinch before jumping off the call.

The next day, you get called into another meeting with your CEO—same unmistakable tone of voice and characteristics of speech—only this time, he’s asking you why $250,000 was transferred to an unknown overseas account yesterday afternoon. Befuddled, you try to explain to your CEO that he was the one who requested you make the transfer.