I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

A co-founder of Vidoc Security Lab reports encountering two fraudulent job applicants who allegedly used deepfake video to alter their appearance and AI-generated, bullet-point-style responses during interviews, raising suspicion of links to broader schemes like North Korean IT worker operations. The incidents highlight growing risks of deepfakes and AI-assisted social engineering for infiltrating organizations, stealing intellectual property, and enabling extortion, with concerns that rapid advances in AI will make detection increasingly difficult.