Last year, employees at the UK-based engineering firm, Arup, were tricked by a deepfake video of the company’s CFO into transferring $25 million to cybercriminals. This isn’t an anomaly. It’s further proof that social engineering has become cybersecurity’s most costly problem. Today, more cybercriminals are launching AI-powered social engineering attacks targeting finance teams and executives, principally those in vendor-facing roles with access to funds and the authority to modify payment details and approve wire transfers. Whether it’s an AI-generated phishing campaign, a fake Invoice in payment initiation, or a deepfake impersonation, the success rate of these social engineering attacks is…
