Ledger / Jul 2024
Ferrari executive foils CEO voice-clone call
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Bloomberg reporting from people familiar; Ferrari declined to comment.
An executive got WhatsApp messages and then a call imitating CEO Benedetto Vigna's accent about a confidential deal needing a currency hedge. A personal verification question ended the call.
“Sorry, Benedetto, but I need to identify you”Jalopnik
Sources
- Ferrari Exec Nearly Duped By Deepfake Voice Of CEO Benedetto Vigna In Scam AttemptJalopnik · 27 Jul 2024 · secondary source
- Date
- Jul 2024
- Disclosed
- 26 Jul 2024
- Actor
- unknown (criminal), as attributed by Jalopnik
- Targets
- Ferrari executive
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Social engineering, Fraud
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- stated by researcher
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- Blocked; the caller hung up when asked about a book the real CEO had recommended.