{"id":10626,"date":"2024-02-06T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:03:14","slug":"everyone-looked-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10626","title":{"rendered":"Everyone looked real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How&#8217;s this for clever &#8211; and frightening? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3250851\/everyone-looked-real-multinational-firms-hong-kong-office-loses-hk200-million-after-scammers-stage\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3250851\/everyone-looked-real-multinational-firms-hong-kong-office-loses-hk200-million-after-scammers-stage\">Scammers deepfaked various employees on a video conference<\/a> and managed to scam $25 million from a Hong Kong based firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/02\/image-10-1024x683.png?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10627\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scam used digitally recreated versions of the company&#8217;s chief financial officer, along with other employees, who appeared in a live deepfaked video conference call instructing an employee to transfer funds. They included active faces and voices that were good enough to fool them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scam was initially uncovered following a phishing attempt, when an employee in the finance department of the company&#8217;s Hong Kong branch received what seemed to be a phishing message, purportedly from the company\u2019s UK-based chief financial officer, instructing them to execute a secret transaction. Despite initial doubts, the employee was convinced enough by the presence of the CFO and others in a group video call to make 15 transfers totaling HK$200 million to five different Hong Kong bank accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3250851\/everyone-looked-real-multinational-firms-hong-kong-office-loses-hk200-million-after-scammers-stage\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3250851\/everyone-looked-real-multinational-firms-hong-kong-office-loses-hk200-million-after-scammers-stage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/02\/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/02\/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for clever &#8211; and frightening? Scammers deepfaked various employees on a video conference and managed to scam $25 million from a Hong Kong based firm. The scam used digitally recreated versions of the company&#8217;s chief financial officer, along with other employees, who appeared in a live deepfaked video conference call instructing an employee to transfer funds. They included active faces and voices that were good enough to fool them. The scam was initially uncovered following a phishing attempt,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10626\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2Lo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12118,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/12118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}