Bogdan Botezatu

What if somebody, a threat actor or a threat actor group,

might ask for confirmations from people.

Yeah.

If I told people 10 years ago that based on a two-minute conversation that we had on phone, somebody will be able to spoof my voice and impersonate me everywhere for tens of minutes or hours, would they have believed me back then?

They're very prevalent and they are making most of the victims.

I was telling you that I'm clustering scams on a one-on-one type and on a one-on-many type.

One-on-one scams are those that happen in instant messaging where you're getting approached by a stranger and they try to earn your trust and then they will guide you towards some type of scam.

There's a one-to-many type of scam communication that is massively aided by deepfakes.

Cybercriminals are building deepfakes with people that the world recognizes and trusts, like you folks, right?

You are online influencers.

Cybercriminals have a lot of footage with you that they can use to train algorithms.

And people tend to listen to you because that's what they do with key influencers.

There's also politicians, doctors who are very famous, and they become the base of deepfakes.

With these deepfakes,

Cybercriminals start promoting all types of scams from medical supplements to huge crypto investments.

You know, you name it, they have an opportunity for everything.

And these deepfakes get broadcast either on stolen YouTube accounts or on social media posts that are boosted by paying for advertisements.

They use the trust given by the figure that has been impersonated, and they are using large channels to reach huge audiences.

And from there on, of course, some people will fall victim to the scam.

They will heed the call to action, which is normally visit this page or call this number and sign up for this opportunity.