3, 2, 1 and the fake digital driving license is ready. After there were already massive security problems in the official app for the digital driver’s license, Verimi has now also been hit. Behind it are, among other things, as shareholders companies such as
- alliance
- Axel Springer
- Federal Printing Office
- Daimler
- Deutsche Bahn
- DGerman bank
- Deutsche Telekom
- LufthansaSamsung
- Volkswagen Financial Services
This app also tries its hand at the digital wallet. The idea: You should be able to identify yourself with just one click or fingertip. Mobile should provide easy and secure management of your identity. But security fails because of the so-called photo identification process.
The security expert did Martin Tschirsich levered out and thus acquired several fake digital identities. In order to outwit photo identification, he photographed the front and back of the driver’s license, digitally changed the name and printed out the manipulated images larger than life at a photo kiosk.
He then photographed the manipulated images with the app and took a selfie. The “AI-supported process” then confirms the authenticity of the images in a matter of seconds. Tschirsich states that the total duration of the attack was only 30 minutes.