Biometric injection attacks, AI-powered fake IDs move the fraud prevention goalposts

Why it matters

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 tes...