Experts claim that job-seeking imposters, such as deepfakes, are taking advantage of the remote work trend to swindle American businesses and maybe jeopardize American national security.
According to a survey conducted by career portal Resume Genius, 17% of hiring managers reported having seen candidates use deepfake technology to manipulate their video interviews.One thousand hiring managers nationwide were polled.
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The research and consultancy firm Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four job applicants globally would be fraudulent.
“Deepfake candidates are infiltrating the job market at a crazy, unprecedented rate,” stated Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of Pindrop Security, a voice authentication business, who claimed to have just arrested a deepfake applicant.
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According to Balasubramaniyan, “it’s very, very simple right now” to make deepfakes for video interviews. He stated, “All you need is either a static image” or video of someone else and a brief audio clip of their voice.
According to Dawid Moczadlo, co-founder of data security software business Vidoc Security Lab, who recently shared a video of a deepfake job applicant on LinkedIn, “Remote jobs unlocked the possibility of tricking companies into hiring fake candidates.”
“If this trend continues and if we experience more and more fake candidates, then we definitely will need to develop some kind of tools to verify if the person is a real person, if they are who they claim to be,” Moczadlo stated.
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Although fraudulent job searchers can come from anywhere, in recent months, phony applicants with North Korean connections have made news.
The Justice Department claimed in May 2024 that over 300 American businesses had unwittingly employed North Korean imposters for distant IT positions, generating at least $6.8 million in foreign exchange profits. The workers allegedly applied for distant jobs using stolen American identities, and they used virtual networks and other strategies to hide their actual locations.
Aarti Samani, a specialist in AI deepfake fraud prevention, stated, “Hiring candidates or phony candidates from sanctioned nations becomes a national security concern.” “Once these persons or candidates join an organization, they take their salaries and use them to fund operations back in their home countries, which is why it becomes a national security issue. Additionally, certain actions may be illegal. Therefore, we are unintentionally supporting illegal activity in countries that have been sanctioned.
Fake AI-generated job candidate profiles are eroding the hiring process’s trust as AI technology advances quickly.
According to seasoned computer security analyst Roger Grimes, “the whole reason you need to worry about deepfake job seekers is, at the very least, they’re making the real employees, potential employees, and candidates not able to get the job or [get the] job as easy.” “It can create all kinds of disruption, just making the hiring process longer and more expensive.”
“Potentially, you could even be applying for a job and someone’s not sure whether you’re real or not, and you don’t even get that call, and you don’t know why you didn’t get the call,” Grimes stated. “It was all because perhaps they saw something that made them think that maybe you’re a deepfake candidate, even when you weren’t.”
Learn how businesses might be harmed by phony candidates and how to counteract this problem by watching the video above.
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