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Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

📅 20 August 2026 at 12:01 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named "Zombie Card," requires physical

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