Artificial intelligence opens up fascinating opportunities – but it also introduces a new dimension of risks. This becomes particularly evident when it comes to deepfakes. Convincingly realistic voices, faces, or videos can now be generated in seconds and are often barely distinguishable from reality. For cybercriminals, deepfakes have thus become an ideal tool to make social engineering attacks more believable and to manipulate victims with precision.

In the presentation “The Dark Side of Deepfakes”, we demonstrate how attackers leverage AI to deceive organizations. We explore the psychological triggers involved and present concrete attack scenarios. For a hands-on perspective, we guide the audience through some of the latest social engineering attacks live: from a deepfake call ...