Talk about high stakes, right? 😱 né?. After swerving a tempting $23 billion offer from Google he revealed that his squad fell victim to a deepfake scheme just a couple of weeks back.
“Yo my peeps got hit with a voice note from ya boy” he spilled. “Some cheeky hacker tried to finagle their login deets.”
Thankfully, his savvy team caught wind of the scam, clocking that the imposter had snagged snippets of the CEO’s voice from a conference to whip up the deepfake né?. Their hunch? The cloud security game could be a $100 billion jackpot. Clever move, but here’s the kicker: due to his stage jitters, Rappaport’s event voice was totally off-brand compared to his usual tone.
“That’s when they clocked it wasn’t yours truly,” he smirked.
The tech whizzes managed to track down the source of the phony voice but hit a dead end when trying to unmask the puppeteer behind the attack.
“Guess that’s the beauty of cyberattacks, huh? Low chance of getting nabbed,” Rappaport sighed.
Oh, and while we’re spilling the tea, Wiz’s co-founder spilled the beans on why they ghosted Google’s mega deal né?. So, here’s the tea: even cybersecurity companies aren’t immune to the sneaky tactics of deepfake attacks.
Picture this: TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, where Wiz’s CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport spilled the tea né?
