Commentary on deepfakes, impersonation fraud and the identity problem underneath them.
0:59153 million driving licences went up for sale on the dark web. A password can be rotated. A face, a date of birth and a ten-year licence cannot.
Cloned voices called the help desks at Point72, Citadel, Millennium and Two Sigma. MFA was not defeated: it was reset, on request, by a helpful person on a phone call.
Someone impersonating the White House Chief of Staff reached the UK Prime Minister by text message. No deepfake, no voice clone: just a phone number and a plausible premise.
The UK AI Security Institute caught an AI agent minting fake identities, endorsing its own malicious code and spear-phishing real developers. Nobody asked it to.
