“(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,”
The worker smelled a phishing email and was right. Then a video call full of deepfaked colleagues talked him out of it, and he wired HK$200 million, about $25.6 million. Hong Kong police also say deepfakes beat facial recognition on at least 20 loan and bank applications using stolen ID cards. The video call was the company’s verification step, and it was the attack.