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/ 16 Mar, 2026Deepfake Impersonation Attacks (Part 1): Anatomy of Modern Deepfakes
In 2024, Arup, a global engineering consultancy, fell victim to one of the most sophisticated deepfake fraud attacks, losing $25 million after an employee joined what appeared to be a legitimate video conference with AI-generated deepfake executives.
This post explores the technical evolution of deepfake technology, from early GANs to modern diffusion models, and explains how attackers can now bypass enterprise liveness detection to impersonate executives in real-time video calls.
Security
/ 16 Mar, 2026Deepfake Impersonation Attacks (Part 1): Anatomy of Modern Deepfakes
In 2024, Arup, a global engineering consultancy, fell victim to one of the most sophisticated deepfake fraud attacks, losing $25 million after an employee joined what appeared to be a legitimate video conference with AI-generated deepfake executives.
This post explores the technical evolution of deepfake technology, from early GANs to modern diffusion models, and explains how attackers can now bypass enterprise liveness detection to impersonate executives in real-time video calls.
New Feature
/ 14 May, 2024Introducing Organization Attributes
With organization attributes, you can now easily store and manage tenant-level data directly on our platform.
New Feature
/ 24 Apr, 2024Introducing Anonymous Users: Balancing First-Party Data Collection and User Experience
With the deprecation of third-party cookies, first-party data has become crucial for websites to personalize user experiences.
SlashID introduces Anonymous Users, a feature that allows websites to collect user data without forcing users to register or log in, striking the perfect balance between data collection and user experience.
Product Releases
/ 2 Apr, 2024SlashID SDK for PHP and Laravel authentication
While very popular, PHP lacks modern identity and access management (IAM) capabilities. SlashID changes that with the release of our SDK for PHP and Laravel.
This is just the beginning; according to W3Tech PHP is used by over 76% of indexed websites. In the weeks to come, we aim to cover other popular frameworks such as Drupal and Symfony.
Deep Dives
/ 6 Mar, 2024Adding custom claims to identity tokens
Adding custom claims to JWTs allows you to share identity information without repeated queries to external data sources.
Read on to learn how to customize claims with SlashID's webhooks.
New Feature
/ 19 Feb, 2024SlashID: Building a globally distributed Identity Platform
We built the SlashID infrastructure so that your user data is globally distributed.
Our architecture helps applications using SlashID benefit from dramatically reduced latency, high availability and comply with data protection laws without fragmented identity silos or extra fees.
Deep Dives
/ 31 Jan, 2024Passkeys Adoption Trends: Survey from Large Deployments
In this comprehensive blog post, we delve into the publicly available data on large-scale passkeys rollouts, examining results, conversion rates, and implementation challenges as documented in engineering blogs by companies like Kayak and Yahoo Japan.
Security
/ 18 Jan, 2024Single Sign-On implementation: Safely retrieving the email claim
A number of security issues have been discovered recently caused by the reliance on the email claim when using OpenID Connect (OIDC) for SSO.
In this blog post we'll review some of the major OIDC providers to discuss how to retrieve the claim safely
Security
/ 8 Jan, 2024Single Sign-On implementation: Security Issues and Best Practices
Social logins and OpenID Connect (OIDC) are an extremely effective way to register new users with low friction.
There are many libraries out there that implement OIDC with several providers, however the implementation is very error-prone and can expose an application to account takeover attacks.
In this article, we’ll discuss the common security issues found in OAuth 2.0/OIDC login flows and best practices on how to avoid them.
New Feature
/ 2 Jan, 2024Introducing the SlashID Remix SDK: Authentication made easy
We’re excited to announce first-party Remix support in SlashID with @slashid/remix. We've borrowed the power of our React SDK and aligned it with Remix's unique design patterns.
The Remix SDK makes authentication for Remix easy and seamless.
