According to data from VMware, 66% of the surveyed cybersecurity professionals say that, over the past year, they have recorded at least one incident with deepfakes🇧🇷 Email is the main form of distribution of detected attacks.
A new report reveals that cyber-attacks using deepfakes are becoming an increasingly common occurrence. The data, advanced by VMware, indicate that, compared to last year, there was a 13% increase in the number of reported attacks that use this Artificial Intelligence technology.
According with the company, 66% of the 125 cybersecurity professionals surveyed state that, over the past year, they have recorded at least one incident with deepfakes. Email is the main form of distribution of attacks, corresponding to 78% of incidents of this type.
The report also details that 60% of the professionals questioned indicate that they have registered an increase in cyberattacks since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine, in particular with regard to ransomware.
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It should be recalled that, even in June, the FBI warned of the increasingly frequent use of deepfakes by alleged candidates for remote job openings in technology.
The technology is also used to imitate voices during online job interviews, using stolen personal information.
Among the vacancies that are most often targeted by those who practice these schemes are positions related to information technology, programming, databases and software, many of them with access to personal information of clients, in addition to financial data and databases. corporate data of companies.
