How Bad Movie Dubbing Led to the Fake Biden Campaign Robocalls

Cybersecurity experts have spent years warning about deepfakes—artificially generated or manipulated media that can pass as authentic. While much of the concern has centered on images and video, it’s become clear over the past year that audio deepfakes, sometimes called voice clones, pose the most immediate threat. Vijay Balasubramaniyan, founder of the fraud detection agency Pindrop, says his company has already begun to see attacks on banking customers in which fraudsters use synthetic audio to impersonate account holders in customer support calls.