Podcast
Root Causes 364: Video Conference Deepfake Enables $25 Million Theft


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
February 22, 2024
Deepfakes continue to show themselves as part of the standard criminal toolkit. A recent deepfake spear phish enabled a $25 million Business Email Compromise (BEC). We explain what happened.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
So I agree with you. I think out of band and best practices is very interesting. And let's cover that. Let's make that a topic.
And I also think if you want to project into the farther future, this isn't a thing that happens this year, or next year or the year after that. But if you project out 10 years from now, there's going to be something in place that allows us to confirm who we are, and that's where tech needs to get to.

