Deepfakes and how to deal with them [Q&A]

With deepfakes getting more sophisticated and harder to detect both organizations and individuals are at risk of falling victim to fraud and phishing attempts. We spoke to SURF Security CTO, Ziv Yankovitz, to learn more about the increasing threat of deepfakes and best practices that can be used to for combat attacks. BN: What are deepfakes, and how have they evolved in recent years? ZY: Deepfakes are synthetic media, including images, video and audio generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to depict real or non-existent people. Whilst deepfake technology has been around for over a decade, it has advanced significantly in… [Continue Reading]