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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Deepfakes and Trust

🔍 Advances in AI and deepfake technology make it increasingly difficult to tell what’s real online, enabling convincingly fake videos, images and audio that scammers exploit to deceive individuals and organizations. Threat actors use deepfakes of public figures to promote bogus investments, create synthetic nudes to extort victims and deploy fake voices and videos to trick employees into wiring corporate funds. Watch ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe outline practical defenses to recognize and resist deepfakes, and explore other Cybersecurity Awareness Month videos on authentication, patching, ransomware and shadow IT.

13 Cybersecurity Myths Organizations Must Stop Believing

🛡️ This article debunks 13 persistent cybersecurity myths that no longer hold up against rapidly evolving threats such as AI-generated deepfakes and accelerating digitalization. Experts contend that AI augments rather than replaces human analysts, because human context and judgment remain essential. They warn that identity verification, MFA, and buying more tools or people are insufficient without mature operations, automated certificate management, and a defense-in-depth posture tuned for modern attacker behaviors.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Knowledge Is Power

🔐 October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, underscoring that the human element is the first and most critical line of defense against cyberthreats. Cybercriminals exploit social engineering and increasingly rely on AI-driven tools to create believable, hyper-personalized scams and deepfakes. Watch the video with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe for practical insights, and consider ESET's cybersecurity awareness training to strengthen individual and organizational resilience.

How Scammers Use AI: Deepfakes, Phishing and Scams

⚠️ Generative AI is enabling scammers to produce highly convincing deepfakes, authentic-looking phishing sites, and automated voice bots that facilitate fraud and impersonation. Kaspersky explains how techniques such as AI-driven catfishing and “pig butchering” scale emotional manipulation, while browser AI agents and automated callers can inadvertently vouch for or even complete fraudulent transactions. The post recommends concrete defenses: verify contacts through separate channels, refuse to share codes or card numbers, request live verification during calls, limit AI agent permissions, and use reliable security tools with link‑checking.

Two-Thirds of Businesses Hit by Deepfake Attacks in 2025

🛡️ A Gartner survey finds 62% of organisations experienced a deepfake attack in the past 12 months, with common techniques including social-engineering impersonation and attacks on biometric verification. The report also shows 32% of firms faced attacks on AI applications via prompt manipulation. Gartner’s Akif Khan urges integrating deepfake detection into collaboration tools and strengthening controls through awareness training, simulations and application-level authorisation with phishing-resistant MFA. Vendor solutions are emerging but remain early-stage, so operational effectiveness is not yet proven.

AI-powered financial scams flood social media ads now

⚠️ AI-driven deepfake ads on social media are increasingly used to impersonate banks, celebrities and news outlets to lure victims into investment fraud. Campaigns observed in 2024–2025, including the Nomani Trojan activity, use fake or hijacked accounts, localized messaging and deepfake testimonials to harvest credentials or steer targets into scam groups. Reported losses from investment fraud are substantial, so verify offers independently and avoid clicking unsolicited financial ads.