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EVENT STREAM // SEPTEMBER 2019

DEEPFAKE USED IN $243,000 CORPORATE FRAUD

 ·  Significant impact

Criminals use AI-generated voice to impersonate a CEO and trick a UK energy company into transferring $243,000. First confirmed deepfake fraud at scale.

DEEPFAKE INCIDENT CYBER AUTONOMY
SOURCES [2]
  1. Wall Street Journal reporting on the CEO voice-clone fraud (Sept 2019) — wsj.com
  2. Euler Hermes (Allianz Trade) claims disclosure — allianz-trade.com