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.

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::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.

  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    You’d be surprised. Roop isn’t perfect but it can be quite convincing sometimes and it doesn’t require much training at all. It’ll take a single face picture. Same with voice cloning, you only need 15-30 seconds of source audio to make a decent clone. You can use even less, but the quality won’t be as good. Just those two pieces of source material could be easily obtained by anyone working near the CFO’s office/anyone that knows his routine before/after work (e.g. going to a cafe, gym, etc).