Fake voices ‘help cyber-crooks steal cash’

By 2019-07-08Science & Tech
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Image caption Convincing fakes of audio are easier to generate than video spoofs

A security firm says deepfaked audio is being used to steal millions of pounds.

Symantec said it had seen three cases of seemingly deepfaked audio of different chief executives used to trick senior financial controllers into transferring cash.

Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create convincing fake footage.

The AI system could be trained using the “huge amount” of audio the average chief executive would have innocently made available ... Read even more

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