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Amber Bouman

Hackers are now using deepfakes in phishing scams to fool banking apps and steal your money - how to stay safe

A person sat at a computer and a tablet, coding.

If you've ever thought about jailbreaking your iPhone, here’s a reason that will definitely make you want to reconsider doing so: a new deepfake tool for iOS has been discovered that can inject videos into your device in order to fool your banking apps and commit identity theft.

As reported by Cybernews, security researchers at the biometric authentication company iProov have found a new tool that cybercriminals are using on jailbroken iPhones to do exactly this.

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