Cybercrooks conned man with AI fake of boss's voice
"Less than a minute after finishing the call with Johannes, the fake Johannes rang again. His voice was identical but as soon as I asked who was calling, the line went dead." The criminals have yet to be identified, the company's insurer, Euler Hermes, said. Philipp Amann, head of strategy at the cybercrime centre at Europol, said that similar frauds may have already been made but gone undetected. Experts have raised concerns in the past year about the rapid acceleration of the technology but it had been believed that only video footage could be mimicked with such accuracy.
Oct-7-2019, 07:28:27 GMT
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