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recovery layer

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Identity SecurityDeepfakes

Deepfake vishing: when the executive on the call was never there

Voice phishing used to mean a convincing stranger on the phone. Now the caller can look and sound like the executive you report to, built from footage that executive published themselves. One engineering firm lost twenty five million dollars to a video call where everyone but the victim was a deepfake. The defenses that actually work are procedural, and so is the question you have to answer afterward.

Mick Johnson8 min read

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