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…

シドニー・オペラハウスなど世界的に有名な建築物を手掛ける英国の多国籍設計・エンジニアリング会社は、ディープフェイク詐欺の標的となり、香港の従業員の1人が詐欺師に2,500万ドルを支払ったことを確認した。

ロンドンに拠点を置くアラップの広報担当者は金曜日、CNNに対し、1月にこの詐欺事件について香港警察に通報し、偽の音声と画像が使用されたことを確認したと語った。

「残念ながら、事件はまだ捜査中であるため、現段階で詳細を述べることはできません。しかし、偽の音声と画像が使用されたこ…

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• 英国のエンジニアリンググループ Arup は、詐欺師のせいで 約 2,500 万ドルの損失 を受けましたフィナンシャル・タイムズの報道によると、AIで操作した「ディープフェイク」を使ってグループのCFOになりすまし、従業員から香港の銀行口座への送金を要求した。
• 香港警察によると、スタッフの1人が、英国に拠点を置くアラップのCFOを名乗る「機密取引」に関するメッセージを受け取ったとフィナンシャル・タイムズは伝えた。偽のCFOと他のAIで生成された従業員とのビ…

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• 金融ソフトウェアプロバイダーの Medius による調査によると、米国と英国の企業の半数以上 (53%) が「ディープフェイク」技術を利用した金融詐欺の標的となり、43% がそのような攻撃の被害者となっています。
• Medius が調査した米国と英国の金融専門家 1,533 人のうち、85% がそのような詐欺を組織の財務セキュリティに対する「実存的」脅威と見なしていると、先月公開された 調査結果に関するレポート で報告されています。ディープフェイクとは、人工…

ディープフェイク技術が進化するにつれ、フィッシング攻撃の種類と巧妙さはますます増加しています。組織は、重大な経済的損失や評判の失墜につながる可能性のあるディープフェイク攻撃からどのように身を守るべきか疑問に思うかもしれません。

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ますます高度化するデジタル ツールのおかげで、銀行詐欺や不正行為は消費者と金融機関の両方にとって蔓延する脅威となっています。AI を利用したディープフェイクから手の込んだ小切手詐欺スキームまで、犯罪者はさまざまな戦術を使って、何も知らない被害者から苦労して稼いだお金を奪っています。

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