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As new security technologies shield us from cybercrime, a slew of adversarial technologies match them, step for step. The latest such advance is the rise of digital doppelgängers—virtual entities that mimic real user behaviors authentic enough to fool advanced anti-fraud algorithms.
In February, Kaspersky Lab's fraud-detection teams busted a darknet marketplace called Genesis that was selling digital identities starting from US $5 and going up to US $200. The price depended on the value of the purchased profile—for example, a digital mask that included a full user profile with bank login information would cost more than just a browser fingerprint.
The masks purchased at Genesis could be used through a browser and proxy connection to mimic a real user's activity. Coupled with stolen (legitimate) user accounts, the attacker was then free to make new, trusted transactions in the user's name—including with credit cards.
Well, so much for biometric security. Next?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Friday May 17 2019, @10:37AM (2 children)
Oh, Farch! I forgot that Soylentils are mostly Americans, and thus stupid in any other language! Ok, "doppelgänger" means something like a "double" or an identical twin, of you. The best representation in literature is probably Josef Conrad's Secret Sharer [google.com], but most of our self-involated millennial Soylentils will not be able to form the slightest connection to this masterful writer of the Fin de siècle. Mores the pity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 17 2019, @02:28PM (1 child)
Dostoyevsky > Conrad
Fite me!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday May 19 2019, @09:30AM
Dosteyevsky's work was "The Idiot". Bite me!