What are deepfake email threats?

Current deepfake threats: AI-generated executive voice messages attached to **BEC** emails, making fraudulent requests more convincing. Text deepfakes create personalized, contextually appropriate **phishing** content.

Emerging risks: video messages from spoofed executives, real-time voice deepfakes in phone follow-ups to **phishing** emails, and AI maintaining convincing conversation threads.

Defense evolution: verification procedures become more important as synthetic content becomes indistinguishable from authentic. Technical authentication and out-of-band verification protect against convincing fakes.