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by bengalister 860 days ago
In France there had been cases of employees wiring money convinced that they were talking to their CEO/CFO/lawyers over the phone. Many cases were due to a Franco-Israeli gang arrested in 2022/2023 that managed to make at least 38M Euros out of it. They impersonated CEOs without the help of deepfake AI. See https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/fran...
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There is an entertaining podcast series on this called Persona:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/persona-the-french-dec...
Speaking of personas and apple ... I bet apple vision personas make attacks like this a lot easier if anybody ever uses them.