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Alleged Deepfake CFO Scam Reportedly Costs Multinational Engineering Firm Arup $25 Million
A finance employee at the multinational engineering firm Arup was reportedly deceived into transferring $25 million by fraudsters using purported deepfake technology to impersonate the firm's CFO in a video call, according to the Hong Kong police.
- Date it happened
- 2024-02-02
- Organisation involved
- Scammers
- Product, system or model
- Video call technology, Deepfake technology, Synthetic audio generation technology
Where this came from
- weforum.org
- scworld.com
- ibm.com
- theregister.com
- unite.ai
- cybersecuritydive.com
- cfodive.com
- fortune.com
- biometricupdate.com
- cfodive.com
- cnn.com
- themercury.com
- hypebeast.com
- jdsupra.com
- hackread.com
- cpomagazine.com
- asiafinancial.com
- siliconangle.com
- arstechnica.com
- readwrite.com
- businessinsider.com
- voanews.com
- wionews.com
- cybernews.com
- scmagazine.com
- helpnetsecurity.com
- theguardian.com
- theregister.com
- huffpost.com
- cnn.com
Attribution
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This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.