{
  "slug": "deepfake-cfo-wire-fraud",
  "title": "The deepfake got on the video call. It still couldn't sign the wire.",
  "summary": "Business email compromise cost $3.046B in 2025. A deepfaked video call moved eight figures. Here is the control that does not rely on spotting the fake.",
  "lede": "A finance employee joined a routine video call, saw and heard colleagues he recognised, and moved a very large sum out of the company. Every participant except him was synthetic. The control that survives this attack does not try to work out whether the people on the call are real, because that question no longer has a reliable answer.",
  "date": "2026-06-15",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Payments",
  "tags": [
    "deepfake",
    "wire fraud",
    "BEC",
    "finance",
    "payments",
    "payment release",
    "executive impersonation"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Deepfake%20CFO%20Wire%20Fraud/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/deepfake-cfo-wire-fraud.html",
  "wordcount": 3527,
  "related": [
    "vendor-bank-change-fraud",
    "callback-verification-fails",
    "dual-control-both-phished"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}