In early 2020, a branch manager of a Japanese company in Hong Kong received a call from a man whose voice he recognized---the director of his parent business. The director had good news: the company was about to make an acquisition, so he n…

An investigation into the defrauding of $35 million USD from a bank in the United Arab Emirates in January of 2020 has found that deepfake voice technology was used to imitate a company director known to a bank branch manager, who then auth…

An investigation into the $35 million stolen from a bank in the United Arab Emirates in January 2020 found that fake voice technology was used to impersonate a company director known to a bank branch manager, who then authorized the transac…

Deep Voice

Deepfake technology has gotten incredibly sophisticated over the years, allowing us to resurrect the voices of the dead and fool Justin Bieber into challenging famous Scientologists to fights. Some folks are even using it for mor…

A group of fraudsters made off with $35 million after using forged email messages and deepfake audio to convince an employee of a United Arab Emirates company that a director requested the money as part of an acquisition of another organiza…

UAE police are investigating a bank robbery in which criminals allegedly used deepfake artificial intelligence (AI) to clone the company director's voice and convince the bank manager to transfer $35 million.

As deepfake technology evolves …