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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)

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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.

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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Somewhere I worked the CEOs email got hacked and they asked the head of finance to change the bank account details for a 100k payment that was due to go out.

Luckily they thought to double check with them. But it came really close to happening.

This all happened via a phishing email.

Social engineering is how most hacks happen. Doesn't matter what protection you put in place. People are always the weakest link.

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