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Hack lets attackers bypass MasterCard PIN by using them as Visa cards
A new attack called a “card brand mixup” exploits vulnerabilities in the contactless protocol used in credit cards to deceive a point-of-sale terminal into transacting with a Mastercard what it believes to be a Visa card, The Hacker News reports. Researchers from ETH Zurich demonstrated how the use of an Android application to initiate a…