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UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to £20m deepfake scam | Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call
Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call
The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (£20m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call. The Arup global chief information officer, Rob Greig, who oversees the company’s computer systems, said the organisation has been subject to frequent attacks including deepfakes. The Hong Kong police force said in a statement on Friday that an employee had been “deceived of some HK$200m after she received video conference calls from someone posing as senior officers of the company requesting to transfer money to designated bank accounts”.
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