Experts Call Deepfake Fraud More Sophisticated And Massive In 2025

JAKARTA - Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company, released cybersecurity predictions in 2025 for the Asia Pacific region.

In the report, Palo Alto Networks predicts that frauds using artificial intelligence (AI) technology such as deepfakes, which are used for malicious purposes, will become more massive in 2025.

"By 2025, the Asia Pacific region will face Al-based cyber threat storms that are increasing on scale, sophistication, and impact," said Simon Green, President, Asia Pacific and Japan at Palo Alto Networks.

While it has been used to spread political misinformation, deepfake attacks have most effectively targeted companies for financial gain, bad actors will further take advantage of the growing generative AI technology to launch credible deepfake attacks.

Not only deepfakes can change a person's face, Palo Alto Networks also mentioned that the use of deepfake audio will expand, because existing technology has allowed very convincing sound cloning.

"For example, an organization can receive emails with voicemail that looks like my voice, asking for approval of funds," said Deputy Director of the Palo Alto Network ASEAN Regional, Steven Scheurmann in a media briefing on Tuesday, January 14.

In addition, Steven also provided a real example experienced by an employee at a engineering company in Hong Kong who was deceived to send millions of dollars to a fraudster who used deepfakes to emulate CFO and executive teams in a video conference.

Seeing the development of technology and several cases that have occurred, Steven believes that all people in the world will increasingly see the use of deepfakes as an attack or as part of a bigger attack in 2025.