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Researchers find that Android phones are prone to new fingerprint attack

Chinese researchers have found that Android phones are vulnerable to new attacks. Dubbed BrutePrint, it can unlock any Android phone that uses a fingerprint sensor for authentication. It is done by ...
Bleeping Computer

Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks

Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass user authentication and take ...
Ars Technica

Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones

Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as ...
Android Authority

Android phones can be unlocked in minutes using $15 equipment and new attack

A new type of attack can easily guess the fingerprint authentication on some Android phones in as little as 45 minutes. Researchers tested it on phones from Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, HUAWEI, OPPO, ...
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Biometric Bypass: BrutePrint Makes Short Work of Fingerprint Security

Weaknesses in the biometric security architecture of Android phones could allow attackers to brute-force an encoded fingerprint, if they have physical access to a targeted phone for hours and have a ...