In a recent news, an employee of a Hong Kong company was tricked through a combination of a phishing email and a video call with deep faked CFO and other colleagues into transferring $25.6 million into various bank accounts.
Alex reacts to this news and asks the question: should we maybe start using code words for a second factor authentication in online communication, like in the 80s spy movies?
Links:
- (Paywalled) 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
- https://www.businessinsider.com/deepfake-coworkers-video-call-company-loses-millions-employee-ai-2024-2?op=1
- https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/05/hong_kong_deepfaked_cfo/
- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
