When a recruiter at Atlanta-based voice authentication startup Pindrop Security interviewed a seemingly qualified engineering candidate named Ivan over video, something felt off. Ivan's facial expressions didn’t quite match his speech. The company’s internal systems flagged his IP address not from Ukraine, as he claimed, but thousands of miles away, possibly inside a Russian military facility near the North Korean border.
Ivan wasn’t just lying about his location. He wasn’t even real.
Source: Pindrop Security
According to Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the man dubbed “Ivan X” by the company was a scammer using deepfake technology to impersonate a job seeker. His face and voice were AI-generated. The goal wasn’t simply to land a job. It was to infiltrate the
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