Hacker was able to reproduce German Defense Secretary Ursula von der Leyen's fingerprint just by scanning a thumbshot. These photos were made public by the media.
Until now we knew that with enough care, fingerprints can be copied from objects with polished surfaces touched by a person. This method is also used by the police, but security investigators have been able to prove that it can be done by anyone.
Fingerprints can be reproduced by images
In the conference for hackers Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg this year, the Jan Krissler, also known as Starbug, presented how the biometric feature can be reproduced from the pictures of a finger.
Ο Krissler is a security researcher at the Technical University of Berliny, and examines the weaknesses of biometric security systems.
The fingerprint that he managed to reproduce found her in a thumbs-up photograph by von der Leyen, which was taken at a press conference in October. Then use additional close-ups to fill the missing fingerprint sections.
The tool used by the researcher was the VeriFinger, το οποία ενσωματώνει την τεχνολογία αναγνώρισης δακτυλικών αποτυπωμάτων. Το λογισμικό έχει σχεδιαστεί για ολοκληρωτές βιομετρικών συστημάτων και βασίζεται σε έναν ισχυρό αλγόριθμο που συμμορφώνεται με το πρότυπο system fingerprint recognition.
Fingerprint Extractor is an app that is available to consumers at the price of € 20 if nine licenses are purchased.
This vulnerability is probably something that has to worry about device makers as more and more use the fingerprint recognition feature.
Η acquisition of a fingerprint through the Krissler method, can bypass all biometric systems that secure access to many different parties, because physical access is no longer necessary.
See the presentation video (German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIY6k4gvQsY
