Scam: Vishing and deepfake voices can defraud your business. Learn the ultimate guide to protecting your business..

Imagine you receive a call. The voice is that of your CEO, with the same tone and style. The CEO is asking you to transfer money immediately to close a secret deal. Everything sounds real. But it's not. This is AI-powered voice social engineering, a new form of voice fraud.

The nature of the risk has changed. Phishing, previously limited to text, now extends to voice. AI allows attackers to clone someone's voice with extreme accuracy. This deepfake voice fraud is one of today's most dangerous cyber trends. These attacks are not mass attacks, but targeted. They target employees who are authorized to process payments or can share sensitive information.

The attacker eliminates all suspicion by speaking in the CEO's voice. The purpose of this article is to explain in detail how these attacks occur and what human and technical defenses you should adopt. To prevent an attack, it's important to first understand how it begins. Voice fraud has evolved from simple pressure tactics to multi-channel impersonation.

This is an old-fashioned method. The attacker calls an employee and pressures them to perform an urgent task, such as an account issue, a tech support call, or a security alert. The attacker's goal is to pressure the victim into sharing information without thinking. Classic vishing is an old-fashioned method in which the attacker calls an employee and pressures them to perform an urgent task, such as an account issue, a tech support call, or a security alert. The goal is to pressure the victim into sharing important information without thinking.

The scale of cyberattacks has now increased significantly. With AI, an attacker can imitate someone's voice using just a few seconds of audio from a podcast, conference, or meeting. This cloned voice replicates not only tone but also cadence and pitch, making it difficult to distinguish whether the person on the other end is the attacker or your boss. The most dangerous attacks are those that combine email and calls. The attacker first receives an "urgent and confidential" spear-phishing email, followed by a phone call impersonating the CEO. This leads the victim to fall into the trap.

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