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Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique
Attacker then emulates the card and makes withdrawals or payments from victim's account.
ESET researchers have named the malware NGate because it incorporates NFCGate, an open source tool for capturing, analyzing, or altering NFC traffic. The most likely reason the NGate campaign ended in March, ESET said, was the arrest by Czech police of a 22-year-old they said they caught wearing a mask while withdrawing money from ATMs in Prague. “During our testing, we successfully relayed the UID from a MIFARE Classic 1K tag, which is typically used for public transport tickets, ID badges, membership or student cards, and similar use cases,” the researchers wrote.
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