Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.
What kind of company let’s a single employee transfer that amount of money without multiple different password entries or checks from different people though, seriously?
Doesn’t matter if they had a conference call with what appeared to be certain people as the article says they could easily have used key pair verification such as pgp. Sounds like poor security all around especially considering the amounts involved.
PGP? Have you ever dealt with any banking or financial corporations? You’d have better luck getting the money handlers and decision makers to authenticate transactions with magic.
Hong Kong and Japan are the absolute worst I’ve experienced. Their online banking UI’s and processes are stuck in the late 90’s to early 2000’s.
Japan:
your second authentication factor will be stored on this 3.5” floppy drive
- online lbanking UIs*
- the late '90s*
- early 2000s*
It’s stylistically acceptable to put an apostrophe for plurals in cases where the plural thing isn’t a “normal” word, as is the case for initialisms like UI or numbers like the latter two you caught.
Obviously a given body may make its own rules in this regard, but luckily English has no overall authority, and this is informal communication outside the domain of any minor ones (beyond, perhaps, idle pedants and prescriptivists).
lets* a single employee
Good catch, autocorrect is a bastard :p
It’s yes tits, I think.
lol Finance is sometimes hilariously low tech. Lookup how ACH works, it’s a fucking farce.
Or just have everyone’s phone number on file and pick up the phone and call them first.
This is incredible. And scary. And incredible. I would hate to be the poor sap that fell for it though, oof.
Sounds like he just picked a big batch of oopsie daises
Used to be so easy to spot scams and fakes, this stuff now is getting scary. I wonder if this will slow things down as we require face to face and in person confirmation.
I’d like to hear the whole story, like how hold was the scammed guy etc.
To me it smells like he was an accomplice, or a very old person who is full of his company shit.
That’s scary but at the smme time super cool. I mean kudos to the thieves, they did the hard work apparently.
