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Over the past week, an article has been floating around about a company that lost $25 million when a finance worker was convinced to send a bank wire to a scammer pretending to be the CFO... over what appears to have been a very convincing deepfaked video call. Deepfakes (ie. AI-generated fake audio and video) are appearing increasingly often both in the crypto space and elsewhere. Over the past few months, deepfakes of me have been used to advertise all kinds of scams, as well as dog coins. The quality of the deepfakes is rapidly improving: while the deepfakes of 2020 were embarrassingly obvious and bad, those from the last few months are getting increasingly difficult to distinguish. Someone who knows me well could still identify the recent video of me shilling a dog coin as a fake because it has me saying "let's f***ing go" whereas I've only ever used "LFG" to mean "looking for group", but people who have only heard my voice a few times could easily be convinced. Security experts to

Dark Mode Toggle Ask security questions 2024 Feb 09 See all posts Ask security questions Special thanks to Hudson Jameson, OfficerCIA and samczsun for feedback and review. Over the past week, an article has been floating around about a company that lost $25 million when a finance worker was convinced to send a bank wire to a scammer pretending to be the CFO... over what appears to have been a very convincing deepfaked video call. Deepfakes (ie. AI-generated fake audio and video) are appearing increasingly often both in the crypto space and elsewhere. Over the past few months, deepfakes of me h

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