Security professionals are raising the alarm about a rise in threat actors’ interest in voice cloning-as-a-service (VCaaS) products available on the dark web that are intended to facilitate deepfake-based fraud. I Have No Mouth and I Must Do Crime, the newest report from Recorded Future, is based on a threat intelligence analysis of online speech.
Deepfake audio technology, among other things, can imitate a target’s voice to get through multi-factor authentication, disseminate false information, and boost the effectiveness of social engineering in assaults similar to business email compromise (BEC) attacks.