Chinese researchers discovered a new type of attack targeting smartphones. BrutePrint is a brute-force attack that can bypass fingerprint authentication. They managed to breach security measures enabled for brute-force attacks like attempt limits and liveness detection. Brute-force attacks use numerous trial-and-error attempts to decipher a key, or password in order to obtain access to accounts […]
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