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Discover how deepfakes, voice cloning, and AI-powered phishing are reshaping digital deception—and learn practical strategies to strengthen identity security with real-time, AI-driven defenses.
Frame's AI Models Build Contextualized Security Lessons Automatically in MinutesFrame Security, founded by former Wiz product and sales leader Tal Shlomo, emerged from stealth with $50 million to build AI-generated cyber training and simulations designed to prepare employees for phishing, deepfakes, voice cloning and other personalized social engineering attacks.
Why CISOs Must Rethink Trust, MFA and Machine Identity GovernanceAI-driven phishing emails, voice deepfakes and synthetic identities have changed the threat landscape. Attackers now mimic trusted users with precision. Security teams can no longer rely on static controls or traditional verification methods.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how individuals and organizations conduct many activities, including how cybercriminals carry out phishing attacks and iterate on malware. Now, cybercriminals are using AI to generate personalized phishing emails, deepfakes and malware that evade traditional detection by impersonating normal user activity and bypassing legacy security models. As a result,
Africa becomes a proving ground for AI-driven phishing, deepfakes, and impersonation, with attackers testing techniques against governments and enterprises.
Ironscales Founder, CEO Eyal Benishti Pushes to Expand AI Protection Beyond EmailDeepfake phishing is escalating as cybercriminals deploy agentic AI to automate everything from data collection to social engineering. Ironscales founder and CEO Eyal Benishti outlines how phishing is targeting communication platforms beyond email, and how defenders can keep up.
Instagram ads impersonating financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) are being used to target Canadian consumers with phishing scams and investment fraud. Some ads use AI-powered deepfake videos in an attempt to collect your personal information, while others drive traffic to phishing pages. [...]
Instagram ads impersonating financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) are being used to target Canadian consumers with phishing scams and investment fraud. Some ads use AI-powered deepfake videos in an attempt to collect your personal information, while others drive traffic to phishing pages. [...]
Instagram ads impersonating financial institutions like Bank of Montreal (BMO) and EQ Bank (Equitable Bank) are being used to target Canadian consumers with phishing scams and investment fraud. Some ads use AI-powered deepfake videos in an attempt to collect your personal information, while others drive traffic to phishing pages. [...]
The FBI warned that cybercriminals using AI-generated audio deepfakes to target U.S. officials in voice phishing attacks that started in April. [...]
Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet RSAC Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…
YouTube creators are being targeted by scammers seeking out their credentials, using deepfake tactics to lure them in with a false sense of legitimacy.
AI-Powered Social Engineering and Deepfake Threats in 2025Security researchers predict threat actors will use artificial intelligence and large language models to enhance phishing attacks and create convincing fake personas, while defensive AI enters a new phase of semiautonomous operations.
Paramount's Surinder Lall on AI Impersonation, Deepfakes, AI Governance FrameworksWhile AI transforms business operations, it helps cybercriminals develop sophisticated impersonation techniques such as deepfakes and voice synthesis, posing new challenges for corporate security, said Surinder Lall, senior vice president of global information security risk management at Paramount.
Personalized phishing emails with fake collaboration opportunities and compromised video descriptions linking to malware are just some of the new tricks.
LastPass revealed this week that threat actors targeted one of its employees in a voice phishing attack, using deepfake audio to impersonate Karim Toubba, the company's Chief Executive Officer. [...]
Convincing phishing emails, synthetic identities, and deepfakes all have been spotted in cyberattacks on the continent.
With prompt injection, AI puts new spin on an old security problem
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