Delhi, India: World facing data breach and privacy with controversial policy and financial enforcement agency, especially bank, banking service related card issuing authority offering new back -door for hackers as contactless credit/ debit cards.
Contactless cards offer swap-less transaction service with up to 2 cm distance. Contactless card use Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to employ radio signals for all sorts of tagging, tracking, and establishing contact with available devices as well metal detectors deploy RF signals to track and identify devices.
Now manual skimmer can set with metal detector which pulse is very strong to detect your contact-less card and identify easily with more distance than NFC. This pulse can copy all your card details for further cloning your card. Also this technology capable to transaction minimum amount without your acknowledgment, each time we use metal detector gate. The manual metal detector used by security guard also able to do same. Once your card is cloned by hacker, there is no more authentication required for small amount debit nor bank send alert for small amount transaction usually.
Design, developing and deploy wireless skimmer is very easy as you read in this article. So we advice users to get in touch with your bank and check statement to avoid any specious activity and financial fraud with your account.
