Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works
Cyber Crime Junkies
Outro
Hosts thank Perry Carpenter, share links to the book, webinar, and wrap up the episode.
Why modern cybercrime targets trust, urgency, and decision-making instead of systems
Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works
Traditional fraud used to feel obvious: misspellings, odd links, weird emails.
Now? Deepfakes embed perfectly familiar voices and faces into your feed — or your inbox.
Listen to Perry Carpenter on this. If you love this topic as much as we do grab Perry's incredible book FAIK available everywhere. Here's a non-affiliated link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faik-perry-carpenter/1145888787?ean=2940190971293
Don't Miss the Deepfake Webinar coming up! You WIll See how you can test out your own deepfake to better understand them. https://info.knowbe4.com/new-deepfake-training-na?partnerref=blog
Chapters
00:00 Why the Next Breach Won’t Look Like the Last One
01:44 Welcome to America in 2026
03:00 Why Deepfakes Are Exploding Right Now
05:20 Yes — A Voice Can Be Cloned in Seconds
07:30 What Deepfakes Actually Are (No Hype)
09:35 Legitimate Uses vs Weaponized Intent
12:45 Why Deepfake Companies Stay Quiet
17:05 Faces and Voices Are the New Attack Surface
18:30 Stop Asking “Is This Real?” Ask This Instead
20:55 Why Spotting Artifacts No Longer Works
23:45 The One Question That Cuts Through Deepfakes
25:50 What Leaders Should Actually Do Today
27:45 Old-School Security Still Wins
30:05 Why Detection Tools Are Losing the Race
33:10 Romance Scams, HR Fraud, and Deepfake Hiring
35:45 10 of 15 Job Candidates Were Fake — Here’s Why
38:40 Fake Workers, Real Access, Real Damage
42:20 Deepfakes as Multi-Stage Attack
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