Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks

Malcontent · May 21, 2023

The Chinese researchers managed to overcome existing safeguards on smartphones, like attempt limits and liveness detection that protect against brute-force attacks, by exploiting what they claim are two zero-day vulnerabilities, namely Cancel-After-Match-Fail (CAMF) and Match-After-Lock (MAL).

BrutePrint and SPI MITM attacks were tested against ten popular smartphone models, achieving unlimited attempts on all Android and HarmonyOS (Huawei) devices and ten additional attempts on iOS devices.
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Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks

Cudni · May 21, 2023

Interesting read. As only Android 11 and below were tested I wonder if latest android is more resistant simalar to apple

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