WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content
Description
In China, fraudsters bypassed facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay by crafting identity-verification GIFs of victims from their selfies on WeChat Moments, a social media platform.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- wechat-pay
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- wechat-pay-users
Classification
Risk Domain
Malicious Actors & MisuseRisk Subdomain
4.3. Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
MIT Risk Profile
Source
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