TX-NFC: Ghost Tap — can your bank catch fraud from a card that never left your pocket?
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The episode discusses the security of contactless payments and a new fraud method that exploits this technology.
Send us Fan Mail Contactless payments have become such a routine part of everyday life that we rarely think twice about how they are secured. For decades, every contactless transaction has been built on the assumption that your card needs to be physically present to make the purchase. Now, there is one Chinese-language Fraud-as-a-Service operation that has found a way to break that assumption. First uncovered by Group-IB researchers, TX-NFC relays stolen card data to a fraudster’s devic...
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