Uncle Sam warns deepfakes are coming for your brand and bank account Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies. In a report published on Tuesday, the NSA, the FBI, and the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that threats from "synthetic media" pose a growing …
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I'm relatively confident that we are secure when we get lots of deepfakes all the time, I suspect I should be worried if they weren't trying to hack us all the time - that would make me think we had been hacked.
I was writing this and got a phone call, I answered, "Ock ows it gun fur yu, cannu ear may, you're nut replayin ... har owe deaft" but they never responded so I assume that was an AI spam phone call?
Easy to tell it's bollocks - those guys never talk to the little people, and rarely say anything that hasn't been passed through multiple levels of legal and HR. I mean, if the Boss Man could randomly open his mouth and let words fall out, he'd probably be as nutty as Musk (who doesn't appear to have babysitters handlers).
Because of this technology the kids & us have a phrase that we have agreed on to verify that it is us if we make a "we need monies" call. We did this at the start of last year. SWMBO has done the same with her siblings, as I have with my brother.
Both SWMBO & I have in just the last 3 weeks received a couple of very good fake calls purporting to be from our son, but without the phrase we just hang up, and then phone him just to be sure.
Bit harder to do in a corporate environment.
"Bit harder to do in a corporate environment."
It shouldn't be. Anybody with the authority and access to large amounts of company funds should be taking seminars on the latest scams all of the time. Somebody could even print them out and leave hardcopy in the loo. The best defense is to have a rigorous written process for the movement of funds. Anything that show up that's off-nominal should be suspect. Even with something such as one company buying out another and there being large transfers, all of the methodology should be spelled out in advance and any changes at the last minute such as a change in bank accounts to receive the funds should trigger a set of protocols. If that causes a delay, so be it.
Large companies set up their vendors so those vendors are fully documented in the A/P system. There will be a whole checklist before checks are sent and there should be a rigorous process of re-verification if the vendor is changing banks, addresses or official company name. I'd suggest that at some point in prior to any changes, the vendor much send a memo detailing those changes and the date they will or are estimated to take effect. If there is no advance notice, the vendor payments could be put on hold. I could see a case where the vendor's bank goes into administration and they have to open another account someplace else, but that change shouldn't be handled via email, text or social media. Depending on the amounts of money involved, it could be prudent for a personal visit.
The scams are nearly always a last minute emergency situation. Very few grifters are willing to play the long con.
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