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Deepfakes
interviewing at your company right now.

AI-generated candidates are clearing your video screens, passing ATS filters, and accepting your offer letters. Stops the fraud before it starts — invisibly, instantly, at scale.

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Candidates used AI in the application process

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Stolen U.S. identities used in remote hiring schemes
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Candidate profiles may be fake by 2028

Gartner predicts that 25% of candidate profiles worldwide could be fake by 2028, showing how quickly hiring fraud is becoming a business risk.

$25 Million

Lost in a single deepfake fraud case — Arup Group, 2024

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Increase in deepfake fraud incidents since 2023

1 in 10

Remote interviews now flagged as potentially synthetic

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Recovered in most deepfake hiring fraud cases — zero recourse

Real Incidents • It’s Already Happening

They didn’t see it coming either.

These aren’t hypotheticals. Deepfake candidates have already cleared interviews across every industry. The tools are cheap, accessible, and improving every month.

Hiring Fraud
KnowBe4 • Cybersecurity
North Korean actor hired as software engineer using an AI-generated identity
A threat actor used AI-generated photos and a stolen U.S. identity to clear KnowBe4’s full interview and background check process. The individual was provisioned a company laptop and immediately began loading malware. Caught only after device behavior triggered an endpoint alert.
Impact: Insider threat, malware deployment, active nation-state espionage
Financial Fraud
Arup Group • Engineering
$25M wired after deepfake executives appeared live on a company video call
A finance employee in Hong Kong was convinced to wire $25.6M after a multi-person video conference where every participant — including the CFO — was a deepfake. The attack used publicly available video to clone executive identities in real time, defeating every identity check.
Impact: $25.6M irreversible wire transfer with zero recourse
Espionage
U.S. Tech Sector • Multiple Companies
FBI warns of remote workers using deepfakes to pass video interviews at scale
The FBI issued a public advisory warning that threat actors are using deepfake audio and video combined with stolen PII to apply for remote technical roles at U.S. companies. Once hired, they exfiltrate proprietary data, source code, and credentials, targeting government contractor access.
Impact: Ongoing sector-wide threat — FBI IC3 advisory active
The Solution • How Authenticator Works

Verification before a single question is asked.

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Candidate enters your pipeline
Authentication triggers automatically at the interview scheduling stage.

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Pre-interview liveness check
The candidate completes a brief verification step. Our multi-signal analysis runs in real time

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Confidence score delivered
Your team receives a clear authenticity signal. Understand why a candidate was flagged and which signals triggered the alert.

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Proceed with confidence
Green-lit candidates move through your process normally. Flagged candidates enter a review queue — your team always makes the final call.
Early Access • Limited Availability

See it stop a deepfake in real time.

We’re running a limited early access program with select enterprise hiring teams. Request a live demo and we’ll show you exactly how Authenticator would have caught every incident above.

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Built for remote-first hiring
Video interviews are now the first and often only face-to-face touchpoint in the hiring process — which makes them the primary attack surface. Authenticator was engineered specifically for this environment and the threat actors who exploit it.
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No IP exposure. No magic box.
We won’t tell attackers what we look for. What we will tell you: our detection is multi-modal, our models are continuously updated, and our false positive rate is engineered to protect both candidates and your team’s time.
Without Authenticator — A Typical Deepfake Attack Timeline
Undetected
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Day 1 — Application submitted
Threat actor submits using a stolen identity, AI-generated photo, and fabricated work history. ATS scores it highly. No flag raised.
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Day 4 — Phone screen cleared
A voice-cloned call impersonates the persona convincingly. Recruiter notes "great communication." No flag raised.
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Day 9 — Video interview passed
A deepfake video call clears the hiring manager screen. Lighting artifacts dismissed as poor connection quality. No flag raised.
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Day 18 — Offer extended & accepted
Background check uses the stolen SSN and passes. Laptop shipped. VPN provisioned. Credentials issued. No flag raised.
With RecruitEye Authenticator — Stopped at Step 2
Flagged before the phone screen. Confidence score: 12% authentic. Synthetic face artifacts detected. Candidate removed from pipeline before any IP, credentials, or systems exposure.

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