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Bogdan Botezatu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
434 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

They're not just one application.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

No, but it's not just the virus.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

Scams have become an important component of cybercrime.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

As I told you, it's one ninth of the total losses caused by technology in the world.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

So at this point, Bitdefender also handles these anti-scamming aspects in various ways.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We have security solutions that automatically detect

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

that a specific message is a form of scam.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We have advisors where people can describe what they're seeing or taking screenshots or taking a picture of something and feeding it to an AI assistant asking, hey, is there anything dangerous here if I'm venturing into what's described here?

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And the AI will look at the situation, assess the likelihood of that being a scam and teach the user that

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

there are a couple of red flags there that probably lead to a scap.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

So Bitdefender, what we do is what we've always done, keep users and companies safe, but now with a lot more technology and attack surface to defend.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

You know that Romania is on the eastern NATO flank.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

It's on the eastern part of the European Union as well.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And as of a couple of years ago, we've had a war at the border.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

There's Ukraine versus Russia.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

Ukrainians are our neighbors.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And as they were in the middle of the fight, a deepfake of President Zelensky erupted on the internet, calling for every armed person to lay down their weapon because Ukraine had surrendered.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

That was a deepfake, and it was quickly combated by Ukrainian security services.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

But this could have had awful consequences.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

consequences, right?