arXiv AI By Guy Frankovits, Lior Yasur, Fred M. Grabovski, Yisroel Mirsky

Deep-Fake CAPTCHA: Mitigating Next-Generation Social Engineering Attacks

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The paper introduces DF‑CAPTCHA, an active defense that asks callers to complete simple challenge‑response tasks during voice and video calls. By evaluating responses on realism, identity consistency, task completion, and response time, the system can detect real‑time deepfake impersonations. Experiments across audio and video modalities show that DF‑CAPTCHA outperforms passive artifact‑search methods, achieving high accuracy and demonstrating the effectiveness of challenge‑based verification against next‑generation social engineering attacks.

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