A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company's chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

The elabora…

The Hong Kong branch of a multinational company has lost $25.6 million (HK$200 million) after scammers using deepfake technology posed as the firm's chief financial officer (CFO) in a video conference call and ordered money transfers, accor…

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Scammers tricked a multinational firm out of some $26 million by impersonating senior executives using deepfake technology, Hong Kong police said Sunday, in one of the first cases of its kind in the city.

Law enforcement agen…

Scammers who used artificial intelligence-powered "deepfakes" to pose as a multinational company's chief financial officer in a video call were able to trick an employee into sending them more than $25 million, CNN reported.

The finance wor…

A Hong Kong-based finance professional at a multinational was reportedly swindled out of $25 million (HK$200 million) of company money when scammers created a deepfake of his London-based chief financial officer in a video conference call.

Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after an employee at an unnamed company claimed she was duped into paying HK$200m (£20m) of her firm's money to fraudsters in a deepfake video conference call.

The Hong Kong police force said …

The scheme and the deepfake video conference call

The attack started with messages sent to several of the firm's employees, but it seems that only one -- employed in the finance department of the company's Hong Kong branch's -- was ultimate…

A deepfake phishing scam cost a multinational company more than $25 million after an employee was fooled by digital imitations of his colleagues on a conference call.

Hong Kong police said at a press conference Friday that the employee at t…

Fraudsters used deepfake technology to arrange a bogus video conference call and elaborately trick a finance worker at a multinational firm into paying out $25 million.

The name of the Hong Kong branch of this multinational company is not s…

Scammers made off with about $25 million after they used deepfake technology to trick an employee at the Hong Kong branch of a multinational company, local media reported on Sunday, citing the city's police.

In January, an employee in the c…

A multinational company's Hong Kong office was the victim of an elaborate scam using deepfake video technology to impersonate executives and scam the company out of HK$200 million ($25.6 million), local police reported on Sunday (Jan 4).

In…

On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company's Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due to a sophisticated scam involving deepfak…

An employee at a Hong Kong branch of a multinational firm was scammed into paying out 200 million HKD (more than $25 million) of company funds after a conference call in which every single participant --- other than the worker --- was a dee…

Learn how a multinational company's Hong Kong branch faced a deepfake scam, causing substantial financial losses, and explore efforts to counter the rising sophistication of deepfake technology.

A multinational company's Hong Kong branch fa…

Scammers stole $25.6 million USD ( $200 million Hong Kong dollars) from a multinational finance firm using deepfake technology, CNN reported.

Hong Kong police were contacted about a case where scammers used a deepfake of the firm's chief fi…

An employee at the Hong Kong office of a multinational company transferred nearly $26 million to scammers last month after unwittingly attending a video call with deepfakes of their co-workers -- including the company's chief financial offi…

Scammers Use Deepfakes to Steal , $25.6 Million From Company in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, a finance worker for an unnamed multinational firm was tricked into paying bad actors $24.6 million, Engadget reports. . According to police, the scamm…

What is easily the most ambitious deepfake scam yet has taken place in Hong Kong, where attackers were able to convince an employee of an unnamed company to transfer HK$200 million (about $25 million) via a fake video conference populated b…

A group of scammers recently used deepfake technology -- now readily available to just about anyone -- to trick a finance employee into paying them over $25 million of corporate funds. This might be one of the world's biggest AI-fueled heis…

Una empresa multinacional británica de diseño e ingeniería que está detrás de edificios mundialmente famosos como la Ópera de Sídney ha confirmado que fue objeto de una estafa deepfake que llevó a uno de sus empleados de Hong Kong a pagar 2…

Resumen de la inmersión:

• El grupo de ingeniería británico Arup perdió aproximadamente 25 millones de dólares después de que los estafadores usaran Según un informe del Financial Times, un empleado de Arup fue manipulado por IA para hacerse…

Resumen del análisis:

• Un poco más de la mitad (53 %) de las empresas de los EE. UU. y el Reino Unido han sido víctimas de una estafa financiera impulsada por la tecnología "deepfake", y el 43 % ha sido víctima de este tipo de ataques, segú…

• Poco más de la mitad de las empresas en EE. UU. y el Reino Unido han sido víctimas de una estafa financiera impulsada por tecnología "deepfake", y el 43 % ha sido víctima de estos ataques, según una encuesta realizada por el proveedor de s…

A medida que la tecnología deepfake evoluciona, la variedad y sofisticación de los ataques de phishing continúa aumentando. Las organizaciones pueden preguntarse cómo protegerse contra ataques deepfake que pueden provocar pérdidas financier…

La IA hace que los trabajadores sean más eficientes. El problema es que la IA también hace que los delincuentes sean más eficientes.

Gracias a las herramientas digitales cada vez más sofisticadas, las estafas y los fraudes bancarios se han …

La IA ha permitido a los estafadores eludir las comprobaciones antispoofing y la verificación de voz, lo que les permite producir documentos de identificación y financieros falsos con una rapidez sorprendente. Sus métodos se han vuelto cada…

Los mensajes de spam son anteriores a la propia web, y la IA generativa le ha dado una mayor fluidez, generando estafas ingeniosas y localizadas, y permitiendo a los delincuentes acceder a regiones y dialectos que antes ignoraban.

Una de la…