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Deepfake Of CFO On A Zoom Call Directs Employee To Wire $25M

“Hong Kong police said at a press conference Friday that the employee at the unnamed firm’s Hong Kong branch initially suspected phishing when he received an email last month purporting to be from the company’s UK-based chief financial officer, CNN reported. However, after attending a video conference and seeing convincing deepfakes of the CFO and […]

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