{"id":25100,"date":"2019-10-23T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25100"},"modified":"2024-06-26T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:27:06","slug":"bec-business-email-compromise-scams-are-rampant-but-scammers-are-now-also-using-ceo-voice-deepfakes-to-con-workers-into-wiring-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25100","title":{"rendered":"BEC (Business Email Compromise) Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"429\" class=\"wp-image-25101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BEC_Scams.jpg\" alt=\"BEC Scams\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BEC_Scams.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BEC_Scams-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>BEC scams are rampant but scammers are now also using CEO voice &#8216;deepfakes&#8217; to con workers into wiring cash<\/p>\r\n<p>AI-generated audio was used to trick a CEO into wiring $243,000 to a scammer&#8217;s bank account.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/forget-email-scammers-use-ceo-voice-deepfakes-to-con-workers-into-wiring-cash\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/forget-email-scammers-use-ceo-voice-deepfakes-to-con-workers-into-wiring-cash\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEC scams are rampant but scammers are now also using CEO voice &#8216;deepfakes&#8217; to con workers into wiring cash AI-generated audio was used to trick a CEO into wiring $243,000 to a scammer&#8217;s bank account. https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/forget-email-scammers-use-ceo-voice-deepfakes-to-con-workers-into-wiring-cash\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50659,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions\/50659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}