A job applicant can be deepfaked into existence in 70 minutes, cybersecurity firm finds

It takes as little as 70 minutes for a researcher with no image manipulation experience to create a fake job candidate that could pass for a real person on a video interview, according to a report published Monday by cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks.

The vendor said manipulated videos or digital representations produced by machine learning techniques — also known as deepfakes — have been used to dupe companies into hiring malicious actors, including those working for states such as North Korea. Once hired, the actors could steal sensitive data, including customer and client information, experts have said.

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