Deepfake technology is evolving at great speed.

So far, deepfakes have been used maliciously mainly to spread disinformation, create fake news, damage the reputation of public figures, and for pornographic purposes. In other words, they have targeted individuals.

However, their growing ability to successfully impersonate people, both in audio and video, is making cybercriminals increasingly interested in using them to attack and scam companies and public institutions.

“We have already dealt with cases of this kind, known as CEO fraud, using deepfake audio. A company’s CEO called us concerned because they had kept him on the phone for a minute and a half using social engineering without telling him specifically why, and he feared it was to obtain his voice and, through concatenations, be able to reproduce it and use it to try to commit fraud against the company,” explains Selva Orejón, an expert in cybersecurity and digital identity at onBranding.

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