Biometrics has advanced as a field to the extent that matching selfies and detecting simplistic spoofs are largely considered solved problems, yet fraud rates continue to rise. The top stories of the week on Biometric Update are developments from the new frontier in identity protection, where injection attacks delivering deepfakes and fakes made with generative AI are pitted against the most sophisticated liveness detection and document validation technologies.
A couple of large American technology providers are testing the limits of public tolerance of video surveillance in everyday life, while EU and the MOSIP stakeholders consider the finer details of implementing population-scale digital identity systems.
Fighting fakes
Biometric injection attacks have become the wild frontier of identity security, Chris Allgrove of Ingenium Biometric Laboratories explained in an EAB lunch talk…
Cyber fraud uses technology as the primary weapon. It is highly scalable and can be conducted from anywhere in the world.
- Phishing/Smishing/Vishing: Using deceptive emails (phishing), text messages (smishing), or phone calls (vishing) to trick victims into clicking malicious links or revealing sensitive data.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC): A high-value scam where a criminal impersonates a CEO or high-level executive via a “spoofed” email address to trick a staff member into making an urgent, unauthorized wire transfer.