{"id":272622,"date":"2024-02-05T04:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=325841"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:06:44","slug":"with-a-deppfake-these-pirates-have-scammed-25-million-dollars-from-a-multinational-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/with-a-deppfake-these-pirates-have-scammed-25-million-dollars-from-a-multinational-company\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Deppfake, these pirates have scammed 25 million dollars from a multinational company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone knows that the potential of artificial intelligence to do good is the same as its potential to do harm. Because AI has no ethics, that’s just something humans who use it have.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Artificial intelligence has once again been used for evil purposes, as revealed by the Hong Kong police. Someone posing as the chief financial officer of a UK-based company asked a finance worker from the multinational to carry out a secret transaction<\/strong>, and initial doubts were overcome with deepfake technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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"A multinational company lost US$25.6 million in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of its CFO ordering money transfers in a video conference call" https:\/\/t.co\/bdwaIFz2JQ<\/a><\/p>— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) February 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>