Swift, Biden, & the $25M scam | Protecting your employees in the era of deepfakes

Earlier in February, HR Grapevine shared the story of a global organization that lost $25 million to scammers after an employee received instructions from their CFO on a video call that turned out to be entirely deepfaked.

Baron Chan Shun-ching, Acting Superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force, where the employee works, stated the deepfake was created using publicly available audio and video.