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 ...

Security researchers have demonstrated a practical attack that can be used to defeat biometric fingerprint checks and log into a target's Android smartphone. See Also: How to Make Yourself a Smaller ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...