"Chinese Researchers Reveal Method to Bypass Biometric Fingerprint Scanners in Smartphones"
Security researchers from X-Lab at Tencent gave a presentation at the GeekPwn 2019 conference in which they brought further attention to the possible circumvention of fingerprint security. The researchers claimed to have successfully bypassed biometric fingerprint scanners in Android and iOS devices through the use of fingerprint photos taken by a smartphone, recreated fingerprints, and an app that they developed. Using their method, they were able unlock three different phones, each of which contains scanning technologies with capacitive, optical, and ultrasonic sensors. This article continues to discuss the fingerprint hacking method and a security vulnerability discovered in the biometric fingerprint recognition function offered by the Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone.