The stakes can be high when threat actors invest the time and money into creating deepfake videos to hack an organisation, here an example from last year:
You may not have $25m in your bank account but here is the state of play of deepfake hacking
So tools that can detect deep fakes and especially deepfake videos are in demand.
But of course, the threat actors know that and so spend more money on AI and processor time and work harder on their models – until they can even add the subtle details of skin blush and a heart beat:
Deepfakes Now Outsmarting Detection By Mimicking Heartbeats Do Deepfakes Have a Pulse? – StudyFinds
Voice Deepfake
This “real world” deepfake technology makes headlines when it impersonates world leaders or celebrities, but for the threat actors, they want it to make money. Your organisation is likely to encounter it not on a video call but on a phone call, where this technology makes the voice seem really real.
Your Takeaway
Your organisation may not be the target of such a sophisticated attack, but you still need the best technical cyber security defences you can afford.
Every organisation must have an industry standard anti-virus – not a free one.
A comprehensive back-up is another “must have”.
What is a Ransomware Resilient Back-up?
The next step in caring for your data are advanced threat defences extended to your cloud services and remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to keep up with changes on your organisation’s devices.
An organisations that really cares about their cyber security will buy into a security operations centre (SOC) – 24/7 continuous monitoring of their technology and data. This is the type of cyber security that until recently was only available to big business, but with advances in technology, including AI and cloud computing even a one-person company can easily afford corporate cyber security protection. It shows your stakeholders that your organisation is serious about cyber security.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
