Deepfakes Threaten Business Wire Transfer Security

Generative AI-driven deepfake audio increasingly enables scammers to impersonate executives and bypass authentication, the article reports on 23 Feb 2026. It cites a British government estimate of eight million synthetic clips shared last year and an ESET experiment showing how short voice samples enable convincing fraudulent calls that facilitate wire-transfer and account takeover fraud. Organizations are urged to adopt training, out-of-band verification, two-person approvals and detection tools to reduce these risks.