Security News > 2022 > October > Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap

Panic over the risk of deepfake scams is completely overblown, according to a senior security adviser for UK-based infosec company Sophos.

"The thing with deepfakes is that we aren't seeing a lot of it," Sophos researcher John Shier told El Reg last week.

Shier said current deepfakes - AI generated videos that mimic humans - aren't the most efficient tool for scammers to utilize because simpler and cheaper attacks like phishing and other forms of social engineering work very well.

One area in which the researcher does see deepfakes becoming prevalent is romance scams.

Here's how crooks will use deepfakes to scam your biz.

Security researchers at Trend Micro warned last month that deepfakes may not always be a scammer's main tool, but are often used to enhance other techniques.

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