[HN Gopher] Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020
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       Deepfaked Voice Enabled $35M Bank Heist in 2020
        
       Author : Hard_Space
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2021-10-15 08:35 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | mdp2021 wrote:
       | So: emails were trusted, phone calls A to B were trusted, secure
       | identification systems were not in place, A was never seen in
       | person, and not even a call from B to A was performed just to be
       | sure.
       | 
       | So, all because people with responsibilities are uninformed about
       | the year they live in. And because cognitively they are unable to
       | care.
        
       | vmception wrote:
       | By the way, this is has already been a way to circumvent KYC on
       | crypto exchanges, as many use technology that analyzes a video of
       | you with your ID.
       | 
       | The crypto exchanges are a much more benign use of deepfakes as
       | they implement KYC primarily to deny users of certain countries
       | out, and the user just wants to use their own funds to trade on
       | the exchange. The crypto exchange is just covering its own ass
       | here, and not getting things stolen from it.
       | 
       | Of course, any body _with_ stolen funds that they want to trade
       | or launder can also create fake accounts at these crypto
       | exchanges using deep fake KYC.
       | 
       | But yeah, back to the article, traditional banks and exchanges
       | have much lower tech verification technology. So its probably a
       | better use of time to just heist them for larger sums via wire
       | transfer, instead of trying to grow/launder a crypto balance.
        
       | plaidfuji wrote:
       | The pleasure of Shawn's company
       | 
       | Is what I most enjoy.
       | 
       | He put a tack on Ms. Yancey's chair
       | 
       | When she called him a horrible boy.
       | 
       | At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens
       | 
       | Across the width of the room.
       | 
       | I count on his schemes to show me a way now
       | 
       | Of getting away from my gloom.
       | 
       | [context: in Mission Impossible 3, Tom Cruise coerces Philip
       | Seymour Hoffman into reading a poem containing all English
       | phonemes to train the model to clone his voice. We are literally
       | living in Mission Impossible now]
       | 
       | https://www.google.com/amp/s/literalminded.wordpress.com/200...
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       | Original clip: https://youtu.be/CgX4uJSj00Y
        
         | k4r1 wrote:
         | "My voice is my passport, verify"
         | 
         | Sneakers 1992 https://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64
        
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       | ahepp wrote:
       | How much audio sample data would you need from the subject you're
       | impersonating to do this? How did the fraudsters know what the
       | manager's voice sounded like?
        
         | ugjka wrote:
         | Like every 6 months there's new breakthrough paper on this that
         | make it faster with less input. AI field is moving fast
        
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