It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake

iProov’s 2024 threat intel highlights a sharp rise in AI-powered deepfake identity spoofing used to defeat facial verification: face-swap attacks +300%, injection attacks on mobile web apps +783%, and virtual-camera abuse +2,665%, driven by crime-as-a-service markets (~35k users across 31 new groups). The piece underscores detection challenges in live video (e.g., $25M Hong Kong fraud, KnowBe4 incident) and advocates layered defenses and user training as traditional checks grow less reliable.