Deepfake fraud attacks are hitting more and more businesses

Fraud attempts and cyberattacks leveraging deepfake technology are on the rise, new research has claimed, adding that it’s high time for products and services that will help organizations defend themselves from these advanced identity theft (opens in new tab) attacks. 

This is according to identity proofing experts ID R&D, which claims nearly half (42%) of organizations have already encountered deepfake attacks. At the same time, 37% already experienced injection attacks – incidents where threat actors bypass the camera or otherwise inject digital content into the data stream. In other words, deepfake technology can help bypass biometric authentication in some scenarios.