PANews reported on February 11 that, according to Decrypt, Google's security team Mandiant recently released a report warning that North Korean-linked hacking groups are using AI-generated deepfake videos and fake Zoom meetings to launch more targeted cyberattacks against cryptocurrency and fintech companies.

The report indicates that a hacking group known as UNC1069 (or CryptoCore) recently compromised a fintech company, using a hijacked Telegram account to launch a fake Zoom meeting. During the meeting, they used a deepfake video of a well-known cryptocurrency executive to gain the victim's trust. The attackers used the pretext of an "audio malfunction" to trick the victim into running malicious commands, ultimately deploying seven different families of malware on the system, designed to steal credentials, browser data, and session tokens. This group primarily targets businesses and individuals in the cryptocurrency industry, including software companies, venture capital firms, and their employees.