AI & Modern ThreatsIntermediateRising threatNew in 2026
Deepfake Video-Meeting Fraud
Security Awareness Essentials 2026About 6 minutesIncludes video
01Why this matters now
The most expensive new attack of the AI era
Generative AI has made it cheap to fake a person's face and voice in real time. The "urgent request from the boss" scam now arrives as a live video call where the people you trust appear to be right there, asking you to act.
25M
dollars paid out in a single reported case, after a finance worker joined a video call where every colleague, including the CFO, was an AI deepfake.
Reviewed and signed off by
SKVerified
Sanne Kuijpers
Lead Red Team Operator, HackersHub
Sources
- ENISA Threat Landscape 2025, AI-enabled fraud
- Reported deepfake CFO fraud case, 2024