IoT Droplocks: Wireless Fingerprint Theft Using Hacked Smart Locks. (arXiv:2208.13343v1 [cs.CR])

Electronic locks can provide security- and convenience-enhancing features,
with fingerprint readers an increasingly common feature in these products. When
equipped with a wireless radio, they become a smart lock and join the billions
of IoT devices proliferating our world. However, such capabilities can also be
used to transform smart locks into fingerprint harvesters that compromise an
individual's security without their knowledge. We have named this the droplock
attack. This paper demonstrates how the harvesting technique works, shows that
off-the-shelf smart …

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