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 ...

Chinese researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have uncovered a new method of attack that can bypass user authentication on modern smartphones by brute-forcing fingerprints, ...

Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in Android devices with Qualcomm chipsets in order to extract the encrypted keys that protect users’ data and run brute-force attacks against them. The attack was ...