Security News > 2021 > July > Becoming Elon Musk – the Danger of Artificial Intelligence
A Tel Aviv, Israel-based artificial intelligence firm, with a mission to build trust in AI and protect AI from cyber threats, privacy issues, and safety incidents, has developed the opposite: an attack against facial recognition systems that can fool the algorithm into misinterpreting the image.
"We decided to check how applicable our attack was against large-scale internet applications, and the attack worked surprisingly well on PimEyes."
"Thousands of Evasion attacks are documented in academia. However, most of them focus on generic image classification and have various limitations. Adversarial Octopus has a number of differences, but the most important one is that it doesn't require any knowledge about the AI algorithm."
"There are known incidents with presentation attacks and deepfakes against biometric security," said Neelou.
"Our attack method could be an alternative way to perform such attacks. However, we think that making fake digital identities can also be a lucrative target for fraudsters. We see the threat as broader than just biometry - there are many AI algorithms making critical decisions based on photos. And they can be a bigger target."
"As research scientists focused on securing AI, we plan to release a whitepaper with technical details of our attack methods," said Neelou.