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NFC Flaws Let Researchers Hack ATMs by Waving a Phone - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hack-nfc-bugs-point-of-sale/

FOR YEARS, SECURITY researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible avenues to their innards, from opening a front panel and sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a hole that exposes internal wiring. Now one researcher has found a collection of bugs that allow him to hack ATMs—along with a wide variety of point-of-sale terminals—in a new way: with a wave of his phone over a contactless credit card reader.

Rodriguez has built an Android app that allows his smartphone to mimic those credit card radio communications and exploit flaws in the NFC systems’ firmware.