Candidate fraud is quickly emerging as a major security risk for companies, with the pace and sophistication of attacks increasing by the day.
At its core, candidate fraud occurs when bad actors misrepresent their identities or credentials to secure jobs and gain access to a company's systems, data, or funds. The threat has grown alongside remote and global hiring as well as rapid advances in AI, which enabled bad actors to fabricate credentials and hide their identities at scale.
By 2028, Gartner projects that
1 in 4 candidate profiles could be fake. That looks like stolen identities and deepfaked faces on the other end of the video call. And in one
recent survey, 41% of IT and security leaders said their company had already hired and onboarded a fraudulent candidate. The risks associated with candidate fraud are so great that the
FBI and the
Department of Justice have investigated it extensively.
This has left recruiting and security teams, already overburdened, facing a new challenge that feels insurmountable. An ID check up front helps, but bad actors can fake documentation, and teams can’t confirm who actually joins the call or spot red flags during the interview. Manual processes and training hiring teams just aren’t enough anymore.
To help companies defend against fraud, BrightHire, a Zoom company, is introducing the first fraud detection tool built directly into live interviews on Zoom, finally giving organizations a better way to identify impostors that slip past document checks.
BrightHire now detects and surfaces candidate fraud signals directly from interviews on Zoom, powered by proprietary signals and deepfake-detection technology. This can be deployed automatically across every interview, bringing a new level of security to the hiring process. Every signal is backed by reviewable evidence, so talent and security teams have the context to decide with confidence. And because BrightHire works within the tools teams already use to hire, there are no new systems to deploy or manage.
"Our customers have told us that candidate fraud is one of the biggest challenges they're facing today, and it's been increasingly hard to catch,” says Ben Sesser, Co-Founder and CEO at BrightHire. “We’re bringing them a solution to a problem that feels impossible to solve, so teams can trust who they're bringing into their company."
