{"id":100230,"date":"2019-12-28T02:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/thieves-are-now-using-ai-deepfakes-to-trick-companies-into-sending-them-money"},"modified":"2019-12-28T02:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T10:42:40","slug":"thieves-are-now-using-ai-deepfakes-to-trick-companies-into-sending-them-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/thieves-are-now-using-ai-deepfakes-to-trick-companies-into-sending-them-money","title":{"rendered":"Thieves are now using AI deepfakes to trick companies into sending them money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thieves-are-now-using-ai-deepfakes-to-trick-companies-into-sending-them-money2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That might explain things\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There may soon be serious financial and legal ramifications to the proliferation of deepfake technology. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a UK energy company\u2019s chief executive was tricked into wiring \u20ac200,000 to a Hungarian supplier because he believed his boss was instructing him to do so. Instead, it was a thief using deepfake tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That might explain things\u2026 There may soon be serious financial and legal ramifications to the proliferation of deepfake technology. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a UK energy company\u2019s chief executive was tricked into wiring \u20ac200,000 to a Hungarian supplier because he believed his boss was instructing him to do so. Instead, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}