{"id":178002,"date":"2026-01-14T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:50:11","slug":"ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Powered Deepfake Scams Are A Pain In The Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/\">AI-Powered Deepfake Scams Are A Pain In The Wallet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 08:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.<br \/>\nWith the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology,\u00a0deepfakes\u00a0are becoming a popular tool among cybercriminals with which to scam consumers, businesses and even institutions, out of their cash.<br \/>\nIn\u00a0Mastercard\u2019s Cybersecurity Survey 2025\u00a0it was estimated that losses and damages from cyberattacks came to $9.5 trillion in 2024, according to Cybersecurity Ventures \u2013 making cybercrime the third-largest economy in the world. That figure was\u00a0$10.5 trillion for 2025, and it\u2019s predicted to hit more than $12 trillion in 2031.<br \/>\nIn one example, UK engineering firm Arup fell victim to a\u00a0\u00a320 million deepfake scam\u00a0in which a Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals, having joined a video call led by an AI-generated senior officer.<br \/>\nA recent\u00a0Medus survey\u00a0found that the majority (53 percent) of finance professionals have been targeted by attempted deepfake schemes. Even more concerning is the fact that 43 percent admitted to ultimately falling victim to the attack.<br \/>\nThe good news is that with the right level of knowledge and awareness, organisations can protect themselves with little capital investment. A\u00a0Finextra article\u00a0shares some of the ways to spot the use of voice cloning, deepfake video, and social engineering.<br \/>\nRead the Full Story<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-Powered Deepfake Scams Are A Pain In The Wallet https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/ai-powered-deepfake-scams-are-a-pain-in-the-wallet\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-14 08:42:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/blogphoto5.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20,24],"class_list":["post-178002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178006,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178002\/revisions\/178006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}