— Mark, what do you think about deepfakes?

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Security Tales: Biometrics Fooled
Vladimir Bezmaly | 06.04.2021
- Johann, we have a problem.

- What's happened?

— Representatives of three banks are waiting for you in the reception area.

— And more details?

— They will tell you more about it themselves.

- Good morning! Although how the hell is it good? We've been robbed!

— You personally?

- Oh, come on. If it were personal, we would have come not here, but to the city police. They robbed the banks where we work. And the most interesting thing is, according to the same scheme.

- How?

— Fraudsters bought high-resolution photographs of other people on the black market, created video deepfakes based on them, and bypassed the biometric identification system.

- Okay, we'll try to figure it out.

A week has passed.


— The deepfake kit is inexpensive, since the empire has a well-developed market for trading personal data. A high-resolution photo and a personal ID will cost only 5 imperials, and the app for “animating” photos can be downloaded for free or purchased for a few imperials. The service converts photos into video, and as a result, it seems that the person is nodding, blinking, and talking in real time.

— Is it really that easy?

— Unfortunately, boss. Reflashed smartphones are morocco mobile database to manipulate biometric systems — when the selfie camera is launched, they automatically launch a pre-recorded video. As a result, the fraudster is automatically identified. Such phones cost about 250 imperials.

- Mark, I think this is just the beginning. Could you work on this problem more closely?

- Let's try.

Three months have passed.

— Johann, that is indeed a problem. Nowadays, many iPhones and Android smartphones are equipped with an extremely convenient facial recognition function, but in addition to being convenient for everyone, this can lead to security breaches. Our team has developed a pair of special glasses that can hack the facial recognition function of 19 Android phone models and even impersonate the owner. During the test, a bank account was successfully opened in the name of another person.