Researchers Undermine 'Windows Hello' on Lenovo, Dell, Surface Pro PCs

With support from Microsoft, analysts from Blackwing Intelligence attempted to subvert the biometric security offered by three sample laptops: a Dell Inspiron 15, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the Microsoft Surface Pro 8/X.

Each such exploit required that a user already had fingerprint authentication enabled, and that the attacker had physical access to the device.

Though neither he nor Dark Reading could confirm it as of this writing, Jesse D'Aguanno, CEO and director of research at Blackwing Intelligence, told this publication that the manufacturers - Goodix, Synaptics, and Elan - have since patched their chips.

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