‘Morphing’: a computer technique that impersonates the face of its victims

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computer technology morphing copies and transforms the photo of the victims to impersonate their identity. In other words, the fraudsters manipulate the passport photographs and identity documents of the victims in order to falsify these documents and circumvent the facial biometric security systems established at different points, such as border controls, where they have recently detected this threat Europe. The morphineg is a technique often used by the mob.

Thanks to this method of identity theft, criminals can travel freely through borders and customsIn addition to releasing smartphones and enter web pages that contain confidential data of their victims.

The morphing leans on the artificial intelligenceand according to David Sancho, head of the Trend Micro Iberia research team, the procedure consists of “interpolating images to form a spectrum in which each of the two starting photographs are at the extremes”.

To create this spectrum of intermediate images, criminals use a series of algorithms that distort the image pixel by pixelwith the aim of making it look like the final image, apparently original and without modifications.

To protect against this threat, WatchGuard Technologies director of authentication Alex Cagnoni advises potential victims to provide up-to-date photos for any new documents, and that businesses, governments, and border controls take effective steps to identity verification.

Likewise, Cagnoni also sees the need to implement two-factor authentication: facial biometrics and the confirmation message sent to the user’s mobile phone.