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New PIN Verification Bypass Flaw Affects Visa Contactless Payments

Visa’s EMV enabled payment cards have an authentication flaw that permits cybercriminals to obtain funds and defraud cardholders as well as merchants illicitly. The flaw is a PIN bypass attack that allows the adversaries to leverage a victim’s stolen or lost credit card for making high-value purchases without knowledge of the card’s PIN. A second vulnerability involves offline contactless transactions carried out by either a Visa or an old Mastercard card, allowing the attacker to alter a specific piece of data called “Application Cryptogram” before it is delivered to the terminal.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/emv-payment-card-pin-hacking.html

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