Connected Magazine
Eamonn Carey: Deepfakes are becoming very real, I even got caught out by one
‘Trust less, verify more’ is the mantra for today as differentiating real from fake becomes ever more difficult
Not so long ago I received a series of friendly messages purportedly from a colleague with a new number on WhatsApp.They referenced events, office locations, people’s names and more and then said they wanted some help accessing some documents. They were in the middle of an M&A deal and wanted to keep everything quiet. It was all very believable stuff.
Except “they” weren’t who they said they were. The office location they mentioned was an ...