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Video is No Longer Proof of Life, Especially with the Most Trusted Colleagues

1 in 5 US Consumers Deceived by Deepfake Ads

A 1,740% Surge in Deepfake Fraud due to Voice Cloning Scams

The Whole Team Was Fake. They Still Took $25 Million.

February 2024. An employee of British engineering firm Arup joins a video call. He sees the CFO. He sees colleagues. He sees people he knows. They’re all fakes. Every single face on the screen is a deepfake. In less than an hour, he transfers $25.6 million into 5 bank accounts.

$35,000,000 Transferred Over a Single Phone Call. How an AI Cloned a Banker’s Boss.

2020. A banker receives a call from the company director he worked with for years. The voice is spot-on: accent, pronunciation, cadence. The banker gets confirmation via email. Documents arrive via another lawyer’s email. Everything seems legit. The banker transfers funds to 17 international accounts. Total amount: $35,000,000. The director never spoke.

March 2019. First Ever Deepfake Call. Nobody Recognized It.

March 2019. The British CEO of an energy company got a call from his German boss at the parent company. The voice was exact. The accent was correct. The melody was identical. The CEO was told to urgently transfer €220,000 to a Hungarian supplier. He sent the money immediately. The boss never called. That was the first-ever case of deepfake fraud.

1 Call. 1 MFA Token. 27 Accounts Stolen

August 2023. An engineer working at a development platform Retool gets an SMS saying there were some changes to the health insurance system. The link in the SMS redirects to a fake Okta web page. The engineer logs in. Then he gets a phone call with a voice that sounds exactly like a friend from IT. The caller asks for MFA token. The engineer provides it. The attacker accesses the Retool platform and compromises 27 customer crypto accounts.

48 Hours to Go. Deepfake Audio Recording. Silence Rule. Irreversible Effect.

29 September 2023. 48 hours before the parliamentary election in Slovakia, an audio file starts spreading on Facebook. The voice sounds like that of Michal Šimečka, leader of Progressive Slovakia. The topic is buying votes for €50 and fixing the election results. The recording is fake. But there’s an election silence rule in place: 48 hours before polling, no party can respond to media content. Timing of the attack was carefully selected.

Deepfake CEO Tried to Get Hold of a LastPass Employee. The Employee Smelled Something Fishy. Fortunately, the Right Moment.

April 2024. An employee at the international password-management service LastPass receives a string of WhatsApp messages from a CEO. Followed by a call from the same CEO. His voice sounds familiar, almost believable – it’s Karim Toubba, the LastPass CEO. The tone sounds urgent. He needs help. The employee listens but feels that something is amiss.

Ferrari Employee Asked About a Book Recommended By His Boss. Fraudsters Couldn’t Answer. Everyone Else Is Not So Lucky.

July 2024. A Ferrari manager receives WhatsApp messages from a number he does not recognize. They are from the CEO Benedetto Vigna asking for an urgent meeting regarding a potential acquisition and currency transactions. Then there was a phone call. The voice sounded identical to CEO’s. But the manager asked a peculiar question – about the book his boss recommended. And the attack failed spectacularly.

The Largest Advertising Holding in the World. The Fake CEO Appeared on Teams. Asked for Money, Passports and Financial Information.

May 2024. One of the WPP agencies gets a meeting invitation on MS Teams. Inviting him was CEO Mark Read, head of WPP – the largest advertising holding in the world. During the meeting Mark Read appeared on the screen along with other WPP senior managers. The attackers asked him to create a new entity and share financial information and personal IDs. It was this combination that aroused the employee’s suspicions.

They Call You as Giorgio Armani. They Call as the Owners of Beretta. Their Friends Help Them Out.

Italy, 2023 to 2025. A chain of ongoing attacks targeted friends, business partners, and family members of prominent Italian entrepreneurs. The attackers cloned Giorgio Armani’s voice and others of the Beretta family. They call the victims and ask for urgent help. Financial help, discreet, outside official channels. The Italian police investigate. More victims are emerging.