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Reported Audio Deepfake Impersonating CEO Karim Toubba Targets LastPass Employee via WhatsApp
- Occurred
- Apr 10, 2024
- Published
- Jul 2, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A LastPass employee was reportedly targeted by an audio deepfake impersonating CEO Karim Toubba via WhatsApp. The message used voice-cloning AI in a social engineering attempt to create urgency and bypass security protocols. The employee recognized red flags, reported the incident, and no breach occurred. LastPass shared the incident publicly to raise awareness about deepfake-driven fraud campaigns targeting executives and companies.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown scammer impersonating Karim Toubba
- Scammers
Harmed parties
- Karim Toubba
- LastPass employee
- Employees of LastPass
- General public
Tags
- deepfake
- LastPass
- impersonation
- scam
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves AI voice cloning used in social engineering, but no actual breach or harm occurred.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8