Report: Social Engineering Attacks Are Increasingly Using Audio and Video Deepfakes
KnowBe4, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
A Gartner survey cited by KnowBe4 finds 41% of CISOs faced an audio deepfake attack and 36% saw deepfake video calls in a year.
KnowBe4 highlights a new Gartner survey in which 41% of CISOs said an audio deepfake targeted their organization in the past 12 months and 36% said employees were targeted by deepfake video calls.
Gartner says most attacks still rely on users, stolen credentials and weak recovery processes.
Its recommendations include shifting training from spotting fakes to secure verification, protecting account recovery and payment workflows with phishing-resistant authentication, and updating incident playbooks for multimodal impersonation and misused agents.