How AI Face Swap Technology Works and What It Means for Cybersecurity in 2026
In February 2024, an employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred the equivalent of $25 million after attending a video conference call in which every other participant was a deepfake. The CFO was not real. The colleagues were not real. The entire meeting was constructed from AI-generated video and audio. This is no longer a theoretical threat category. It is an active attack surface, and it is scaling rapidly.