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Whaling & CEO Fraud: Defending the C-Suite Against AI Impersonation
Executive impersonation has moved beyond a spoofed email from the CEO. Attackers can now combine highly personalized phishing, compromised vendor accounts, AI-generated voices, deepfake video, and real organizational context to make fraudulent requests increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate communication. This guide breaks down how modern whaling and CEO fraud attacks work, the warning signs employees should recognize, and the layered controls security teams can implement to protect executives and the employees who act on their requests.
What’s inside:
- 1Understand how whaling and CEO fraud target executives, finance teams, and other high-value employees
- 2See how deepfakes, voice cloning, compromised accounts, and synthetic media are changing executive impersonation attacks
- 3Learn the process and technical controls organizations can use to verify sensitive requests and reduce human risk
