{"id":68192,"date":"2019-09-09T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68192"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:42:26","slug":"very-scary-stuff-here-thieves-used-voice-mimicking-software-to-imitate-a-company-executives-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/09\/09\/very-scary-stuff-here-thieves-used-voice-mimicking-software-to-imitate-a-company-executives-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Very scary stuff here! &#8220;Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive\u2019s speech&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/09\/04\/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Drew Harwell<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive\u2019s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company\u2019s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world\u2019s first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The managing director of a British energy company, believing his boss was on the phone, followed orders one Friday afternoon in March to wire more than $240,000 to an account in Hungary, said representatives from the French insurance giant Euler Hermes, which declined to name the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Needless to say, this is very scary stuff here! Now what&#8230;? Who in our society should get involved to thwart this kind of thing?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Programmers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Digital audio specialists?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Legislators?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Lawyers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The FBI?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Police?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Other?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 9\/12\/19:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/legal-week\/2019\/09\/10\/watch-out-for-that-email-from-management-the-latest-scams-targeting-lawyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Watch Out For That Email From Management: The Latest Scams Targeting Lawyers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from by Hannah Roberts<br \/>\n<em>Several firms have been targeted by phishing scams in recent months, but why are cyber criminals so drawn to law firms and how can management safeguard their businesses?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Drew Harwell Excerpt: Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive\u2019s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company\u2019s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,356,387,433,45,112,8,210,825,285,821,309,204,454,195,38,822,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-communications","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-digital-audio","category-emerging-technologies","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-platforms","category-programming","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-uk","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68206,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68192\/revisions\/68206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}