Suck up to your fake CEO

It seemed like just another video call. Earlier this year, a finance worker based in Hong Kong for Arup, a British engineering firm, logged in for what he thought was a routine team meeting. On the screen, he saw several colleagues, including the firm’s chief financial officer, who instructed him to transfer $26m to five different bank accounts. He complied. But the man on the call was not Arup’s CFO: it was a deepfake.