Last night the Identity Week team attended the Onfido and Women in Identity event and toured Onfido’s innovative Fraud Lab at their London office.
During a welcome presentation, Dr Louise Maynard Atem, representing Women in Identity, Madeleine Hammond, from GDS, and Giulia Di Nola, from Onfido Identity Verification charted the sharp rise in digital fraud and deepfakes and explained how Women in Identity’s ID Code of Conduct research supports the identity and financial services industries to tackle the problem.
The role of AI was discussed as both the source of deepfakes and defence mechanism underpinning biometrics.
The session shortly broke out into individual networking, giving identity experts in the room the chance to meet and discuss their roles in the space.
While there, a tour of Onfido’s Fraud Lab offered a live deepfake injection attack demo, resemblant of those performed by fraudsters. The engaging workshop used visitors’ faces as real models to manipulate into deepfakes. This gave a fascinating insight into the proficiency and persistence of fraudsters and evolving fraud techniques to resemble identical deepfakes from genuine ID holder documents. The deepfake generation product demonstrated that layers of security features within documents could be imitated with precision to fool AI detection technology.
The Fraud Lab technician commented: “We’re only 6 months away from not being able to tell a real document from a falsified one”.
Onfido builds fraud in-house to advance their knowledge of AI over the fraudsters, whilst training their product to catch sophisticated attacks, like deepfakes.
On display were a selection of fake documents as well as 2D and 3D masks for attendees to see.
Deepfake fraud is the hottest topic in the identity industry right now.
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