Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Researchers new side channel attack can reproduce partial fingerprints to enable attacks

Tom's Hardware
Feb 19, 2024, 12:40 pm156 pts
Researchers outline the PrintListener side-channel attack, which is claimed to be the first to leverage swiping sounds to infer fingerprint information. They claim they can successfully attack up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints.

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