Visa contactless payment tricked
A security loophole makes it possible to bypass the PIN request for a contactless Visa payment. Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a vulnerability that allows criminals to make payments with credit cards without knowing their PINs. A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) has found a security flaw in the EMV protocol for contactless payments from the credit card provider Visa that could allow attackers to circumvent the PIN query and commit credit card fraud. With contactless payment, there is usually a limit to how much you can pay for goods or services. As soon as it is exceeded, the card terminal requests ...