{"id":14495,"date":"2024-05-17T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/uk-engineering-firm-arup-falls-victim-to-20m-deepfake-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:37:58","slug":"uk-engineering-firm-arup-falls-victim-to-20m-deepfake-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/uk-engineering-firm-arup-falls-victim-to-20m-deepfake-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to \u00a320m deepfake scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2024\/may\/17\/tesla-climb-mount-everest-shareholder-vote-musk-texas-rishi-sunak-akshata-murty-sunday-times-rich-list-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (\u00a320m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/05\/hong-kong-company-deepfake-video-conference-call-scam\">said in February<\/a> that a worker at a then-unnamed company had been tricked into transferring vast sums by people on a hoax call \u201cposing as senior officers of the company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/uk-engineering-arup-deepfake-scam-hong-kong-ai-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b4a60fb59a988517de97b303ecda1983c415d637\/0_0_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3368d8b0bc0dbc20fad9a269f6d66c26\" title=\"UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to \u00a320m deepfake scam\" \/>Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (\u00a320m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call.<br \/>\nHong Kong police said in February that a worker at a then-unnamed company had been tricked into transferring vast sums by people on a hoax call \u201cposing as senior officers of the company\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call Business live \u2013 latest updates The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (\u00a320m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call. Hong Kong police said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/uk-engineering-firm-arup-falls-victim-to-20m-deepfake-scam\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to \u00a320m deepfake scam<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}