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.

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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).

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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…

Une multinationale britannique de conception et d'ingénierie à l'origine de bâtiments mondialement connus tels que l'Opéra de Sydney a confirmé avoir été la cible d'une arnaque deepfake qui a conduit l'un de ses employés de Hong Kong à paye…

Dive Brief :

• Le groupe d'ingénierie britannique Arup a perdu environ 25 millions de dollars après que des escrocs ont utilisé Selon un rapport du Financial Times, des « deepfakes » manipulés par l'IA ont permis à un employé de se faire pas…

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• Un peu plus de la moitié (53 %) des entreprises aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni ont été la cible d'une escroquerie financière alimentée par la technologie « deepfake », 43 % d'entre elles ayant été victimes de telles attaques…

• Un peu plus de la moitié des entreprises aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni ont été victimes d'une escroquerie financière utilisant la technologie « deepfake », 43 % d'entre elles étant victimes de telles attaques, selon une enquête menée pa…

À mesure que la technologie deepfake évolue, la variété et la sophistication des attaques de phishing continuent d'augmenter. Les organisations peuvent se demander comment se protéger contre les attaques deepfake qui peuvent entraîner des p…

Plusieurs fois par jour, dans le monde entier, un responsable demande à l'un de ses collaborateurs d'effectuer une tâche lors d'un appel vidéo. Mais la personne qui attribue les tâches est-elle bien celle qu'elle prétend être ? Ou s'agit-il…

L'IA rend les travailleurs plus efficaces. Le problème est que l'IA rend les criminels plus efficaces également.

Grâce à des outils numériques de plus en plus sophistiqués, les escroqueries et les fraudes bancaires sont devenues une menace …

L'IA a permis aux fraudeurs de contourner les contrôles anti-usurpation d'identité et la vérification vocale, leur permettant ainsi de produire des pièces d'identité et des documents financiers contrefaits avec une rapidité remarquable. Leu…

Les spams existaient avant le web lui-même, et l'IA générative a amélioré leur fluidité, en produisant des arnaques localisées et astucieuses, permettant aux escrocs d'atteindre des régions et des dialectes qu'ils ignoraient auparavant.

L'u…

COMMENTAIRE : Ces dernières années, les incidents de deepfakes en entreprise ont explosé, avec 53 % d’entre elles ayant signalé des incidents. Initialement perçus comme de simples divertissements numériques sur des plateformes comme X et In…

L'employé de la finance à Hong Kong n'a rien trouvé d'inhabituel à cet appel vidéo. Son directeur financier basé au Royaume-Uni avait besoin d'une approbation urgente pour une acquisition confidentielle, et plusieurs collègues familiers se …