Digital Identity Friday Five: April 25, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of April 19 to April 25
Today is Friday, April 25. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
But first, are you attending PEAK IDV presents... Deepfakes & Synthetic Identity Three Beam Stream?
It is Tuesday, May 6 and features:
C. Maxine Most of The Prism Project
Parya Lotfi of DuckDuckGoose AI
Blair Cohen of AuthenticID
Tobin Broadfoot of Keyless
🔗 peakidv.link/TPP3beam
Now, the updates!
1/ #FrozenPii Founder Thomas O'Malley Donates Service to Identity Theft Resource Center - Nonprofit
Frozen Pii was founded by Thomas O'Malley, a former state and federal cybercrime prosecutor
"Tom's generous donation will make it easier for others to take back control, just as he did, to protect their loved ones and themselves from the consequences of data breaches and compromised data," said Eva Casey-Velasquez, CEO of ITRC
2/ Scamnetic Receives $13M Series A Funding
Scamnetic announced it received $13 million in Series A funding
Scamnetic’s patented technology integrates into enterprise platforms, allowing service providers to be stewards of consumer safety
Congrats, Al Pascual and team!
3/ Biometric Update: ROC introduces software to stop growing threat of biometric injection attacks
According to Chris Burt, ROC introduced software to detect deepfakes and biometric injection attacks that bypass traditional liveness detection technologies
"Our camera forensics technology is a powerful response to this growing challenge, offering unmatched resilience against the emerging wave of AI-driven identity fraud.” said J. Blake Moore, COO of ROC
Congrats Blake and the ROC team on the launch!
#biometrics #deepfakes
4/ Dark Reading: North Korean Operatives Use Deepfakes in IT Job Interviews
Interesting article from Elizabeth Montalbano at Dark Reading
"Use of synthetic identities by malicious employment candidates is yet another way state-sponsored actors are trying to game the hiring process and infiltrate Western organizations."
PEAK IDV LIVE covered this topic in its first #livestream back in 2023
It featured Donal Greene and Petr Moroz: How Fraudsters Trick IDV Systems with Advanced AI
🔗 : peakidv.link/ITworkers
5/ Evan Rabinowitz Joins authID
In another executive appointment, Evan Rabinowitz announced he has joined authID
"After 7 and a half years at Socure, it’s time for my next chapter." said Evan in his LinkedIn post
Evan is in good company with a number of ex-Socure peers
CEO Rhon Daguro, Jeff Scheidel, Dale Daguro, Greg Manship, Erik Akre, Donna Shawhan, and Erick Soto to name a few!
Congrats to all on your dedication to the digital identity space!
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And that is this week’s #fridayfive
Be sure to register for the #livestream companion series "What in the World of Identity" today at noon PT: peakidv.link/WITWOI425
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ITRC: peakidv.link/1-ff04-25
SCAMNETIC: peakidv.link/2-ff04-25
ROC: peakidv.link/3-ff04-25
DARK READING: peakidv.link/4-ff04-25
AUTHID: peakidv.link/5-ff04-25