Video Call With Deepfakes Costs UK Firm $25m in Hong Kong

An employee at a Hong Kong branch of a multinational firm was scammed into paying out 200 million HKD (more than $25 million) of company funds after a conference call in which every single participant — other than the worker — was a deepfake, the city’s public broadcaster reported. Fraudsters, who…

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