Ghost Tap: Hackers Exploiting NFCGate to Steal Funds via Mobile Payments

Threat actors are increasingly banking on a new technique that leverages near-field communication NFC to cash out victim's funds at scale. The technique, codenamed Ghost Tap by ThreatFabric, enables cybercriminals to cash-out money from stolen credit cards linked to mobile payment services such a...

CVE-2021-20835

Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme vulnerability in Android App 'Mercari Merpay - Marketplace and Mobile Payments App' Japan version versions prior to 4.49.1 allows a remote attacker to lead a user to access an arbitrary website and the website launches an arbitrary Activity ...

CVE-2021-20835

The CVE-2021-20835 issue affects the Android app Mercari (Merpay) – Marketplace and Mobile Payments App (Japan version) prior to 4.49.1. It is described as improper handling of Intent (CWE-939) for a custom URL scheme, enabling a remote attacker to coerce a user to visit a malicious site which ca...

JVN#49465877: Android App "Mercari (Merpay) - Marketplace and Mobile Payments App" (Japan version) vulnerable to improper handling of Intent

Android App "Mercari Merpay - Marketplace and Mobile Payments App" Japan version provided by Mercari, Inc. is vulnerable to improper handling of Intent CWE-939. Impact If a user who is using the vulnerable application accesses a malicious page, the malicious page can launch an arbitrary Activity ...

Samsung Galaxy S8's Facial Unlocking Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo

Samsung launched its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, at its Unpacked 2017 event on Wednesday in New York, with both IRIS and Facial Recognition features, making it easier for users to unlock their smartphone and signing into websites. All users need to do is simply hol...

BHIM App — How to Send & Receive Money with UPI

After the lack of supply of cash in India following its Prime Minister step to remove high-denomination banknotes from circulation in November 2016, the country is moving a step closer towards becoming a cashless economy with the launch of Unified Payment Interface UPI. Unified Payment Interface...

Ninety percent of a Bank online system has security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Smart home devices, routers, cell phones, street common vending machines...... Life time may contact to the smart devices are likely to encounter a hacker to crack, facing security issues. Yesterday, in the XCon security focus information security technology summit sponsored by the“XPwn future...

Let's Take a Selfie to Shop Online With MasterCard

Difficulty in remembering complicated Passwords? Forget Passwords and Fingerprints now – and get ready to authenticate your online purchases with your SELFIES. MasterCard is experimenting a new app that would let you make online purchases by taking a selfie rather than typing a password, moving a...

Charlie Miller Takes on NFC, Charlie Miller Wins

LAS VEGAS–Do not stand near Charlie Miller. Actually, you might not even want to let him walk past you. It’s not that Miller is a bad person, you understand. The problem is that Miller has figured out a couple of methods that enable him–or an attacker–to use the NFC chip in some phones to exploit...

Apple Receives NFC Patent, But Takes It Slow with Mobile Payments

Apple was granted a patent on Tuesday by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a Near Field Communications NFC-enabled travel management application, furthering speculation that the company is readying mobile payment technology for future versions of its iPhone product. The Web site...

Mobile Payments: Is Security Taking a Back Seat?

As smartphone technology evolves so does the way we access and interact with the Internet. Today your smartphone is used both as a phone and a computer. For many users, in 3-5 years your smartphone will also become your wallet. With new applications being developed daily, the mobile payments mark...

Google Reacts to Google Wallet Security Issues

Google has temporarily disabled the provisioning of prepaid cards as the company deals with the fallout from the discovery of security vulnerabilities affecting Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a mobile payment application that enables users to store information such as credit cards on their mobil...

U.S. Playing Catch Up in Security for Contactless Devices

AMHERST, MASS.– The U.S. may boast the world’s largest economy, richest technology companies and a lion’s share of its top research universities. But when it comes to the subject of security of RFID Radio Frequency ID and other contactless technologies, America is still playing catch-up. The U.S....

Android NFC Bug Could Be First Of Many

Google is working on a fix for a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Nexus S Android phones that could cause applications on the phone to crash using incorrectly formated Near Field Communications NFC transactions. The issue, which will be discussed at an upcoming technical conference on...

Is Google Wallet Secure? What You Need to Know

Google announced its long-awaited mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, in New York City on Thursday. The company claims it will revolutionize commerce. But with stories about massive data breaches and hacks an almost daily occurance, consumers are most concerned about whether Google Wallet is...

Zeus Targeting Online Payment Services

The Zeus Botnet continues to evolve and shift in focus from its traditional targets, banks and their customers, to other money-handling institutions like electronic money and online payment systems, according to a new report. The shift has been going on for months and likely follows policy moves ...

8) Your next wallet is a phone. Discuss.

Mobile payments have been going strong in countries like Japan and Finland for years now. In the U.S., however, its taken longer for mobile payments to get a hold on consumers. That’s all about to change. Late model mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone and Google Android-based phones now offer...

Firm Finds Gaping Holes in Mobile Payments Applications

eBay’s PayPal online payment division is rushing a software patch to users of its iPhone mobile payments application to plug a hole that leaves users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle and phishing attacks, but the firm that found that hole said transaction security is just one problem facing the...

New Security Standards for Mobile Payments Coming

From SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo A financial services technology group is developing standards for making secure mobile payment transactions. The goal of the project, an effort of the Financial Services Technology Consortium FSTC, is to develop standards and processes so that banking customers...