Deepfake Avatars and the New Payment Threat
Digital payments were once protected by passwords and card numbers. Today, they are increasingly secured by biometrics, video verification, and AI-driven authentication . At the same time, artificial intelligence has made it possible to generate hyper-realistic deepfake avatars that can mimic faces, voices, and behaviors with remarkable precision. This convergence is transforming payments into a new and complex attack surface. Deepfake avatars are no longer limited to social media hoaxes or entertainment experiments. They are becoming tools for financial fraud, identity impersonation, and automated transaction abuse. As commerce evolves toward agentic systems, where AI agents initiate and approve payments autonomously, the risks grow even more serious. Understanding how deepfake avatars exploit payment systems is essential for building effective agentic security strategies that can stop them in real time. Why Deepfake Avatars Are a Growing Risk in Digital Payments Deepfake avatars are ...