Impersonating someone is hardly a revolutionary type of fraud, but this summer Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer at cryptocurrency exchange Binance, found himself victim of a new approach to spoofing – using an artificial intelligence (AI) generated video also known as a deepfake. Deepfakes take existing video of a real person and create a simulation that can be used in criminal activities (pic: Yakov Oskanov/Shutterstock) In August, Hillmann, who has been with the company for two years, received several online messages from people claiming that he had met with them regarding “potential opportunities to list their assets in Binance” […]
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