Scammers used deepfakes to trick an employee in the Hong Kong office of a major international corporation costing the firm $25 million. The Sydney Opera House and Apple's California headquarters, was the victim of the scam.

An employee in the finance department of the company's Hong Kong office attended a video call with what they believed to be the company's CFO and other staff members.

But everyone else on the call was actually an Al-generated deepfake made using publicly available video and audio recordings.

On the video call, the employee was instructed to transfer HK$200 million ($25.6 million), split over 15 transactions, to five local bank accounts.

The investigation is ongoing, and no arrests have been made so far.