Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
Roundup: expired Visa cards can be revived for contactless payments via NFC relay; plus Apple spyware warnings and Ukraine cyberattacks on Russian e-commerce.
WIRED's weekly security roundup leads with research showing expired Visa contactless cards can be revived to make new payments through an NFC man-in-the-middle attack that alters the card's expiration date. The roundup also covers Apple sending an unprecedented volume of spyware warnings to users and Ukrainian cyber and drone attacks against a major Russian e-commerce company.
- Expired Visa cards can be revived for contactless payments via an NFC man-in-the-middle attack
- Apple sent an unprecedented number of spyware warnings, suggesting widespread targeted surveillance
- Ukraine targeted a Russian e-commerce giant with combined cyber and drone attacks
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Plus: Apple sends out an “unprecedented” number of spyware warnings, Ukraine hits a Russian ecommerce giant with cyber and drone attacks, and more.
By Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman · wired.com
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