53% of American and British Businesses Report Attacks by AI-Powered Deepfake Scams in 2024
September 3, 2024
According to Medius, Deepfake scams have targeted 53% of businesses in the U.S. and U.K., with 43% falling victim. Using AI to create realistic fake videos and audio of corporate executives, scammers have successfully stolen millions, including $25 million from British engineering group Arup.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-scammers, unknown-deepfake-creators
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- american-businesses, british-businesses, finance-professionals, employees, arup
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/800
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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