Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. A recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. There are important differences between the cardholder data stored on EMV chips versus magnetic stripes.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/is-your-chip-card-secure-much-depends-on-where-you-bank/