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Deepfakes Threat: As cybercrime skyrockets, govt warns banks and fintechs about new AI risks
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Deepfakes Threat: As cybercrime skyrockets, govt warns banks and fintechs about new AI risks

[ad_1] Recently, the finance and banking sectors have been exploring the benefits of artificial intelligence to improve their services, however, the same technology is hovering over them like a dark cloud. The threat of deepfakes is not only limited to cloning people's faces and creating fake photos and videos, but now it is being used to steal people's identity. With the help of deepfakes, tricksters are cloning people's voices to manipulate their friends and family members into emptying their bank accounts or revealing vulnerable information. The Indian government has now warned banks and fintech companies about the rising deepfakes threat in the coming months and wants them to strengthen security against cybercrime.To understand the deepfakes threat, one must know what it is. These a...
Cyber risks biggest threat faced by Indian orgnaisations, says survey
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Cyber risks biggest threat faced by Indian orgnaisations, says survey

[ad_1] Cyber risks are cited as the biggest threat faced by Indian organisations with 38 per cent of respondents feeling highly or extremely exposed to it, says a survey.With this, cybersecurity has jumped two spots from number three to number one on the risk radar when compared to the 2022 Global Risk Survey, the PwC's 2023 Global Risk Survey- India edition stated. PwC said the final results of the survey are based on 3,910 survey responses from Business and Risk Management leaders (CEO, board, risk management, operations, technology, finance, audit) across 67 territories providing their views on the status and direction of risk in their organisation. 163 Indian organisations were a part of this survey. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Other digital and technology risks are also t...