Report: Deepfake Attacks Have Targeted Nearly Two-Thirds of Organizations

A Gartner survey highlighted that 62% of organizations encountered deepfake-enabled social engineering in the past year, often used to impersonate executives for fraud, and 32% experienced prompt-based attacks on AI applications. The piece discusses adversarial prompting against LLMs and recommends a defense-in-depth approach with strengthened core controls and targeted measures, emphasizing the role of security awareness training as part of mitigating evolving social engineering threats.