Deepfake Awareness High at Orgs, But Cyber Defenses Badly Lag

The article describes a rising trend of AI-augmented deepfake attacks—voice and image impersonation plus LLM-crafted phishing—targeting businesses and government, reporting widespread encounters and financial losses among mid-sized firms; it emphasizes the growing sophistication and scale of these social-engineering campaigns and urges training, process controls, and AI-assisted detection as mitigations.