"Zombie" Cards and AI Powered Hacking: The Unseen Consequences of Our Growing Dependence on Tech The recent revelations about "zombified" expired Visa cards capable of making contactless payments despite their expiration dates serve as a stark reminder that the tools we rely on for convenience can also become instruments of cybercrime.
This is not an isolated incident but rather part of a larger pattern of vulnerabilities in our digital systems, exacerbated by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications.
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers exposed Visa's flawed authentication process in contactless payments using a technique that leverages a man in the middle app to proxy an expired card through two phones.