{"id":29,"date":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","slug":"deepfake-executive-voice-and-video-the-fastest-growing-payment-fraud-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake executive voice and video: the fastest-growing payment fraud of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI voice and video generation has become cheap and easy, so business email compromise has evolved into phone and video calls that use a real executive&#8217;s voice and face, modelled from a few minutes of public footage.<\/p>\n<h2>Common patterns<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A call to finance in the CEO&#8217;s voice demanding an urgent transfer &#8220;to close a confidential deal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Group video calls in which every other participant is synthetic<\/li>\n<li>Impersonating IT to get staff to read out OTP codes or approve MFA prompts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to defend<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Require every transfer or change of payee to be confirmed through a second channel, calling back a number already on file<\/li>\n<li>Agree internal code words for unusual instructions<\/li>\n<li>Limit the amount any one person can approve<\/li>\n<li>Train finance and executive assistants with realistic deepfake simulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Trend analysis by the Cybershield Threat Intelligence team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminals use AI to clone executives&#8217; voices and faces and order transfers over video calls. Organisations need to change approval processes, not just train staff to spot fakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-threat-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybershield.co.th\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}