With the passage of time and the increase in technologies and now it would be the case of DeepFake, some videos have been released that have warned about the unreliability of what we see with our own eyes from now on. An example is that images are replaced with the face of another person who looks like another or what they say is manipulated by replacing it with other words.
Beyond being able to be used for commercial purposes, this technology can have malicious purposes, since its use can cause numerous damages to a company and also to the user. Many companies are not yet equipped to combat the growing risks that come with it. And so they warn organizations and users about the problems and difficulties that cyberattacks can cause through this technology.
What kind of damage can DeepFake cause
The damages that this technology can cause are innumerable. Involvement in crimes, falsification of evidence, identity theft, damage to the image and many more for which we will analyze them:
▸Damage to personal or business reputation
This method of attacks can be carried out by cybercriminals through deepfakes is a clear example of defamation of a company or company with the aim of damaging its external and internal corporate reputation.
▸Impersonation and scams
Cybercriminals can use deepfakes to attack organizations and scam them by impersonating the voice of people with certain authority within them, and they can create videos with the image of any of these profiles to contact employees directly and request them, through the phone or video calls.
One more example that cybersecurity and the protection of your data in an environment such as the Internet are increasingly necessary. We never know where the danger can come from and this is a very important danger which we should take into account.
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