The 2026 Entrust Identity Fraud Report reports a roughly 40 % year-over-year spike in injection attacks, where synthetic video or audio is fed directly into biometric verification systems to bypass liveness checks. Deepfakes are now implicated in about one in five biometric fraud attempts, according to the report released Wednesday.
The data point to a fraud model that is faster, more organized and increasingly “fraud-as-a-service,” with generative-AI tools making high-fidelity spoofs cheap at scale, reports Technology Magazine+1. Single-capture biometrics—face, voice, or document scans—are proving easy targets as attackers move from tricking human operators to attacking the verification APIs themselves.
The report lands in a market where biometrics and digital identity are growing fast: Juniper Research forecasts digital identity revenues hitting $80.5 billion by 2030, driven by mobile IDs and tighter regulations, according Biometric Update. That growth has attracted a crowded field—iProov, Onfido, FaceTec and others push “liveness-first” biometrics—while Entrust and rivals argue that layered defenses (biometrics + device checks + behavioral and transactional risk) will win out over any single magic factor, reports Biometric Update.
If there’s a catch-up story here, it’s for organizations that treated biometrics as an end state. The report makes clear that verification stacks built around one static scan are now the softest target in the fraud chain.
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