Tips And Tricks Avoid Deepfake Fraud In Cyberspace

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JAKARTA - With AI technology, everyone can do anything, including AI capabilities that are currently widely used, namely the ability to imitate certain people's voices when singing a song.

With this rapid AI technology, it is unavoidable that negative effects will also appear. For example, the use of deepfakes in cyberspace to commit various frauds.

"Criminals in cyberspace are increasingly using deepfakes to commit various scams, including crypto asset fraud and biometric security breaches," Vladislav Turnov, Lead Data Scientist at Kaspersky said in a statement received in Jakarta.

Kaspersky's new research also mentions the fact that the high demand for deepfake manufacturing services also shows that individuals and groups with malicious intent are willing to pay a large amount of money to get such videos.

"As technology continues to increase and becomes more accessible, it is very important for companies and individuals to take protection measures from fraud and attacks related to deepfakes," he concluded.

To protect against deepfake-related threats, Kaspersky recommends some tips that you can use below:

Check the cybersecurity practices applied in your organization, not only in the form of software, but also in the form of developed IT skills.

berkan "firewall manusia" perusahaan: pastikan karyawan memahami apa itu deepfake, cara kerjanya, dan tantangan yang mungkin mereka menghadapi. Tingkatkan kesadaran dan edukasi berkelanjutan untuk membijak karya menemukan deepfake.

Bad news sources use good quality news sources. Upgrading information is an important factor to avoid the dangers of deepfakes.

"It has good protocols like trust but verifyy. Discrepancies about voice and video messages do not guarantee that we are safe from fraud, but are the first steps that can help avoid many of the most common traps though.

Pay attention to the main characteristics of deepfake videos that must be watched out for so as not to become victims: shock movements, lighting that changes from one frame to the next frame, skin color changes, strange or no flickering flashes at all, lips are incompatible with speech, digital artifacts on images, videos are deliberately encoded in poor quality and lighting.