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Researchers create 3D faces from online photos to defeat face authentication systems

Researchers from the University of North Carolina have developed a virtual reality-based attack that can reproduce your face well enough to trick face authentication systems. The team created 3D models of those faces and patched in any missing areas or textures. The attack can bypass existing defenses of liveness detection and motion consistency One of the 20 test participants had uploaded only two pictures to social media in the past three years. The research team concluded: “VR-based spoofing attacks constitute a fundamentally new class of attacks that point to serious weaknesses in camera-based authentication systems””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3109899/researchers-create-3d-faces-from-online-photos-to-defeat-face-authentication-systems.html

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