{
  "id": 2145330,
  "title": "Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/zombie-card-attack-can-revive-expired-visa-cards-for-contactless",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T12:01:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/zombie-card-attack-can-revive-expired.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named \"Zombie Card,\" requires physical",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}