Wiz, a cybersecurity startup valued at $12 billion, recently experienced a deepfake attack that was thwarted because employees knew how the CEO usually speaks.
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport explained at TechCrunch Disrupt on Monday that hackers manipulated audio of his voice and sent a voice message to dozens of his team members to steal login credentials. The credential-based attack, if successful, would have allowed the hackers to gain access to Wiz’s internal systems and steal its data.
Even though deepfake audio has become more convincing, Rappaport’s team knew the message was fake because it was based on a clip of the CEO giving a speech — and that is not how
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