Security News > 2022 > July > Attackers are using deepfakes to snag remote IT jobs

Malicious individuals are using stolen personally identifiable information and voice and video deepfakes to try to land remote IT, programming, database and software-related jobs, the FBI has warned last week.

Deepfakes are synthetic media - images, audio recordings, videos - that make it look like a person has been doing and saying things they haven't done or said.

Deepfake videos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have previously been leveraged to sow distrust on the Ukrainian side of the ongoing conflict, but deepfakes can be a tool for disseminating disinformation with a wide variety of malicious goals in mind.

Researchers around the world are working on technologies that will be able to reliably spot deepfake media, but as the quality of deepfakes improves, they are constantly playing catching-up.

The FBI's warning tells about a recent increase in complaints they've been receiving of individuals using deepfakes and stolen PII to apply for a variety of remote jobs and work-at-home positions, some of which "Include access to customer PII, financial data, corporate IT databases and/or proprietary information."

These individuals are using stolen PII to try to bypass pre-employment background checks, and voice spoofing - or potentially voice deepfakes - during online interviews.

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