DeepfakeHigh
Purportedly AI-Generated Deepfake Reportedly Used to Impersonate DNB Bank CFO and CEO in Live Teams Meeting
- Occurred
- Jan 21, 2025
- Published
- Feb 3, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Unknown cybercriminals reportedly used purported deepfakes to impersonate DNB Bank's CFO and CEO during a live Microsoft Teams meeting, instructing employees at the bank's Singapore office to transfer millions of Singapore dollars. The video and voice were allegedly cloned from public footage and appeared convincing. DNB identified the attempt as a "CEO fraud" and avoided losses, calling it their first encounter with a live deepfake meeting.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammers impersonating DNB Bank officials
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Kjerstin Braathen
- Ida Lerner
- DNB Bank employees
- DNB Bank
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Deepfake technology used in CEO fraud attempt targeting bank employees, though losses were avoided.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8