{"id":24858,"date":"2022-07-05T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=24858"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:14:10","slug":"fbi-warn-organizations-to-be-wary-of-candidates-using-deepfakes-to-apply-for-remote-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/fbi-warn-organizations-to-be-wary-of-candidates-using-deepfakes-to-apply-for-remote-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Warn Organizations To Be Wary Of Candidates Using Deepfakes To Apply For Remote Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"0\">The FBI is warning organizations to beware of candidates who use deepfakes or stolen personally identifiable information to apply for a variety of remote and work-at-home jobs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"1\">Deepfakes include a video, image, or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to portray someone as doing or saying something that has not actually been done or said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"2\">According to the FBI, complaints arose during online interviews when organizations reported a disconnect between the audio, actions and lip movements of the on-camera interviewee.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"3\">Remote jobs targeted include jobs that give these candidates access to customer PII, financial data, corporate IT databases and\/or proprietary information, including information technology and computer programming, database, and software related job functions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"4\">Whereas stolen PII and data were used to apply for these jobs, victims reported that the use of their identities after pre-employment background data checks discovered PII given by some of the applicants belonged to another individual.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciodive.com\/news\/deepfakes-IT-remote-work\/626287\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202022-07-01%20CIO%20Dive%20%5Bissue:42825%5D&amp;utm_term=CIO%20Dive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIODIVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is warning organizations to beware of candidates who use deepfakes or stolen personally identifiable information to apply for a variety of remote and work-at-home jobs. Deepfakes include a video, image, or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to portray someone as doing or saying something that has not actually been done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,57,58,361,16],"tags":[525,388,393],"class_list":["post-24858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-companies","category-government-public-sector","category-privacy","category-security","tag-ai","tag-privacy-security","tag-security-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24865,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24858\/revisions\/24865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}