Even though the photo provided to HR was fake, the person who was interviewed for the job apparently looked enough like it to pass.
why not send an actual picture of his face?
My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.
Very unlikely, If you read and refer to the article. The identity was stolen but the pic is a stock photo.
The two images at the top of this story are a stock photo and what KnowBe4 says is the AI fake based on the stock photo.
My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.
