Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
Tagsphishing-fraud
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This seems to be an identity theft first:
Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking.
Another news article.
Tags: AI, cybercrime, fraud, identity theft, impersonation
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