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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Android Authority

Android 15 can automatically delete your face or fingerprint unlock if they aren't working well

Strings in the latest Android 15 beta suggest the OS can automatically delete biometrics that aren’t working well. Android will delete your face or fingerprint unlock when they aren’t working well and ...
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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 ...