15/09/2026
Biometrics Made in Germany – discussed this week at the annual Darmstadt Biometrics Week, hosted by Fraunhofer IGD.
With an agenda full of injection attacks and deepfake detection, this is just the right place to be for our team.
Attending, presenting, demonstrating – as every year for decades, we are excited to support and learn.
Biometrics is no longer only about what happens in front of the camera – this is our takeaway from the German IT Security Association (TeleTrusT) Biometrics Working Group workshop, organised in cooperation with the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) at Fraunhofer IGD.
One of the highlights was the discussion around injection attacks, deepfakes and, particularly, how the attack surface is evolving. For years, much of the conversation around biometric attacks focused on what could be presented to the sensor: a photograph, mask or other physical artefacts.
Injection attacks change the picture.
An attack can take place after the biometric sensor and before signal processing, where biometric data or signals can potentially be manipulated or injected digitally. And this has an important consequence:
Scalability.
Unlike many physical presentation attacks, digital injection attacks can potentially be automated and repeated at scale across applications, devices and environments.
The deepfake landscape makes this even more relevant.
From face swaps and facial attribute editing to synthetic identities, face morphing and generated video, the ability to create increasingly convincing biometric content continues to evolve.
The takeaway is simple:
Biometric security cannot stop at asking whether the face looks real. We increasingly need to ask whether the entire biometric signal and processing pipeline can be trusted.
This is where liveness detection, injection attack detection and deepfake detection increasingly come together.
A very worthwhile day in Darmstadt, and another reminder that in digital identity, the attack surface keeps moving.
