Researchers have found , how hackers attack your smartphones and steal your fingerprints secretly.
At "Black Hat Conference" in Las Vegas by FireEye researchers have explained new ways of attack to extract the users fingerprints from android phones. Android phones which have "fingerprint sensor" are in danger like Samsung , HTC , Huawei , all the latest having the fingerprint sensors .Four attacks outlined by the researchers, one in particular -- dubbed the "fingerprint sensor spying attack" can remotely harvest fingerprints in a large scale,
The Attacks which were declared on HTC and Samsung S5 has been allowed by the devices because the manufacturers did not lock the sensor efficiently
The sensor is actually protected by the "System Privileges " instead of root which makes it easy to attack
According to "ZDNet" victims' fingerprint data directly fall into attacker's hand. For the rest of the victim's life, the attacker can keep using the fingerprint data to do other malicious things," Zhang said. And that's a big problem. Fingerprints might be commonplace in mobile payments and unlocking devices, but they have been used more in the past five years also for identity, immigration, and for criminal records.
Vendors which have been effected are provided with patches temporarily. and this attack is not just limited to mobile phones , the laptops equipped with fingerprint sensor are also in circle
The researchers have advised the users that always install apps from the reliable sources.
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