Face-Swapping Tools Pose Elevated 'Know Your Customer' Risks

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• Fraud and risk teams must enhance 'know your customer' checks due to rapidly improving deepfake technology. • Synthetic identities, convincing face-swaps, and defeated biometric checks pose significant risks.

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Original Source Material

Easy-to-Use Deepfake Services for Criminals Rapidly Improving, Researchers Warn Financial firms' fraud and risk teams must bolster know-your-customer checks in the face of increasingly effective and affordable deepfake technology and services that can generate synthetic identities, convincing face-swaps and defeat "live" biometric checks to bypass defenses, warn researchers.