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WeChat Pay's Facial Recognition Security Evaded by Scammers Using Victims’ Social Media Content
In China, fraudsters bypassed facial-recognition security for online financial transactions on WeChat Pay by crafting identity-verification GIFs of victims from their selfies on WeChat Moments, a social media platform.
- Date it happened
- 2020-07-01
- Organisation involved
- WeChat Pay
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