Have you ever been approached by someone offering you money for a picture of yourself and your identity documents like your passport? Did you take them up on their offer? Forbes reports:
Update, Dec. 26, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 25 now includes a breakdown of the know your customer attack threat methodology that the newly discovered dark web facial identity resource brings to the identity fraud table.
A dark web criminal operation that appears to have been farming facial ID images along with the genuine identity documents that accompany them has been unmasked, if you’ll pardon the pun, by threat intelligence researchers. Here’s everything you need to know about this sophisticated approach to identity theft that, it would seem likely, has been using information willingly exchanged for financial reward to build the ID farming business.
Researchers from iProov’s biometric threat intelligence unit have uncovered what appears to be a simple yet simultaneously sophisticated identity protection bypass operation being implemented on the dark web. Describing the significant operation as “compromising identity verification systems through the systematic collection of genuine identity documents and images,” the iProov analysts said that this demonstrates how the nature of identity fraud is evolving.
Read about it on Forbes. And this might be a good topic to discuss with your kids in the near future to warn them about what to do if they are ever approached.
