{"id":182484,"date":"2024-02-11T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/hackers-steal-25-million-by-deepfaking-finance-boss"},"modified":"2024-02-11T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T13:23:47","slug":"hackers-steal-25-million-by-deepfaking-finance-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/hackers-steal-25-million-by-deepfaking-finance-boss","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Steal $25 Million by Deepfaking Finance Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-steal-25-million-by-deepfaking-finance-boss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multinational company was scammed out of $25.6 million by hackers who fooled employees at the company\u2019s Hong Kong branch into believing their digital recreation of its chief financial officer \u2014 as well as several other video conference participants \u2014 were real.<\/p>\n<p>The hack, believed to be the first of its kind, highlights just how far deepfake technology has progressed.<\/p>\n<p>As the <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\" class=\"\"><em>South China Morning Post<\/em> reports<\/a>, scammers are believed to have used publicly available footage to create deepfake representations of the staff. Some of the fake video calls apparently only had a single human on the line, with the rest being deepfakes created by the hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multinational company was scammed out of $25.6 million by hackers who fooled employees at the company\u2019s Hong Kong branch into believing their digital recreation of its chief financial officer \u2014 as well as several other video conference participants \u2014 were real. The hack, believed to be the first of its kind, highlights just how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182484","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}