The report produced by Biometric Update together with consultancy Goode Intelligence analyses one of the fastest-growing threats to digital identity: injection attacks, in which verification systems are manipulated by introducing altered images or videos through virtual cameras, emulators or AI-generated content.
The report forecasts that injection attack attempts will increase from 122 million in 2026 to more than 301 million in 2028, driving over 4 billion IAD checks per year.
Facephi stands out in the categories “Identity Verification with Integrated IAD” and “Standalone and Modular IAD Offerings”
The study places Facephi in two categories:
Identity Verification with Integrated IAD. This category brings together platforms that incorporate this protection within the identity verification and onboarding flow itself, so that fraud defence accompanies the entire user experience, from enrolment through to authentication.
Standalone and modular IAD solutions. This category includes providers capable of offering this capability as an independent, integrable layer, designed for organisations that need to strengthen a specific point in their architecture without replacing the rest of their systems.
Being featured in both reflects one of the strengths of Facephi’s proposition: technology that protects the integrity of biometric capture both as part of the full user journey and as a standalone module, adapting to the needs of each organisation.
Advanced Injection Defence: multi-layered protection
These capabilities are embodied in Advanced Injection Defence, a next-generation anti-fraud solution designed to detect and block injection attacks in real time. Its multi-layered architecture integrates specific controls to:
- Detect untrusted capture environments and block virtual cameras or pre-recorded multimedia files.
- Identify manipulations of the video or image stream.
- Analyse metadata and capture signals to validate the genuine origin of each capture.
- Assess injection and presentation attempts before validating identity, using AI-powered forensic analysis.
The report concludes that protecting the integrity of the biometric capture process is now as critical as recognition itself. This is precisely the conviction on which Facephi builds its technology: anticipating increasingly sophisticated fraud so that banking, fintech, insurance, the public sector and other regulated industries can continue to trust every verification.