Zombie Card Attack Exploits Contactless Payments for POS Terminals
Executive Summary Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report the technical details of an attack vector that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale terminal reads over near-field communication, without breaking any of the card’s cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named Zombie Card, requires physical…
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