Cyber Crime Junkies
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Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works

January 10, 2026

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5 min read

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: Podcast interview on Cybercrime Junkies, with hosts grilling expert guest on emerging threats in a conversational, back-and-forth style.
  • The Key Players:
    • Guest: Perry Carpenter, author of Fake and strategic leader at KnowBe4 (global security awareness firm); renowned for decades studying deception, human behavior, and social engineering—world's top deepfake authority.
    • Hosts: Zach and unnamed co-host (cybersecurity pros from MSSP/MSP world); sharp chemistry blending hype, skepticism, and real-world client stories.
  • The Vibe: Educational with intense urgency—fun demos of tech wonders mix with chilling fraud tales, keeping it gripping like a cyber thriller.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode dives into deepfakes exploding from novelty to cybercrime staple, blending tech evolution, psychology, and defenses. Hosts and Perry unpack trends, risks, and fixes amid rapid AI advances.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Perry Carpenter**
  • 2 (03:01) **Evolution and Trends in Deepfakes**
  • 3 (04:29) **Technological Improvements in Deepfake Creation**
  • 4 (07:34) **Defining Deepfakes and Synthetic Media**
  • 5 (09:04) **Legitimate vs. Malicious Uses**
  • 6 (12:21) **Benevolent vs. Malevolent Metrics and Transparency**
  • 7 (17:14) **AI Saturation and Human Psychology**

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Show Notes

Why modern cybercrime targets trust, urgency, and decision-making instead of systems

Deepfake Attacks, Voice Cloning, and Why AI Social Engineering Works

Traditional fraud used to feel obvious: misspellings, odd links, weird emails.
 Now? Deepfakes embed perfectly familiar voices and faces into your feed — or your inbox.

Listen to Perry Carpenter on this. If you love this topic as much as we do grab Perry's incredible book FAIK available everywhere. Here's a non-affiliated link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faik-perry-carpenter/1145888787?ean=2940190971293

Don't Miss the Deepfake Webinar coming up! You WIll See how you can test out your own deepfake to better understand them.  https://info.knowbe4.com/new-deepfake-training-na?partnerref=blog

Chapters

 

00:00 Why the Next Breach Won’t Look Like the Last One

01:44 Welcome to America in 2026

03:00 Why Deepfakes Are Exploding Right Now

05:20 Yes — A Voice Can Be Cloned in Seconds

07:30 What Deepfakes Actually Are (No Hype)

09:35 Legitimate Uses vs Weaponized Intent

12:45 Why Deepfake Companies Stay Quiet

17:05 Faces and Voices Are the New Attack Surface

18:30 Stop Asking “Is This Real?” Ask This Instead

20:55 Why Spotting Artifacts No Longer Works

23:45 The One Question That Cuts Through Deepfakes

25:50 What Leaders Should Actually Do Today

27:45 Old-School Security Still Wins

30:05 Why Detection Tools Are Losing the Race

33:10 Romance Scams, HR Fraud, and Deepfake Hiring

35:45 10 of 15 Job Candidates Were Fake — Here’s Why

38:40 Fake Workers, Real Access, Real Damage

42:20 Deepfakes as Multi-Stage Attack

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