Fraud

Attackers impersonate executives — increasingly with AI voice and video deepfakes — to authorise fraudulent payments and access. How the attack works, who is exposed, and how to defend.

Live video can now be edited faster than you can blink — faces swapped, backgrounds changed, all in real time on a webcam stream. Here is why that breaks video-based identity verification, supercharges executive impersonation fraud, and what security leaders should do about it.