CAS-005: CompTIA SecurityX

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Security Operations

A global company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) receives a phone call from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The caller claims to be stranded and in desperate need of money. The CFO is suspicious, but the caller’s voice sounds similar to the CEO’s. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?

Explanation

The detail that the caller's voice "sounds similar" to the real CEO's points to AI-based voice cloning used to impersonate an executive in real time over the phone, which is the definition of a deepfake attack rather than a written or scripted phishing lure. Smishing involves SMS text messages, spear phishing classically refers to a targeted written (typically email) lure rather than a live synthetic-voice call, and automated exploit generation is unrelated to social engineering of a person.

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