When we talk about cybercrime, we know that the main objective of attackers is to get hold of your personal and banking data. This is because with our personal information they can impersonate us to commit more scams and deceptions and even contact our bank, impersonate us and empty our bank account.
This is a very burning problem, and therefore users as well as all institutions and entities are increasingly prepared to combat this type of attacks and fraud. Even so, and despite the fact that never before has society been so aware of these threatswe are facing the years where there is more cybercrime.
The big reason for this is that at the same time that security measures become stronger, lhe scams and techniques that cybercriminals have become better and more sophisticated, making detecting them even more complicated. Now, in recent weeks, a dangerous form of deception has been detected, with which cybercriminals They are combining several techniques to empty your account by withdrawing money from ATMs.
This plot detected by the team of researchers from the cybersecurity company ESET, detected the rise of a malware called NGate that has the ability to transmit payment card data using a fraudulent app that users unknowingly download.
It all starts with an SMS that supposedly comes from your bank in which they inform you of some type of problem or movement that you have to attend to immediately, the company mentions one related to the tax return, something that makes anyone nervous.
To solve itthey send you a link that if you follow it, a malicious app will be downloaded without you realizing it, which has the ability to relay near field communication (NFC) data from victims’ physical payment cards through their phones compromised Android smart phones.
As a result, the attackers subsequently They could use this data to carry out ATM transactions. But if this method failed, the attacker had an alternative plan to transfer funds from victims’ accounts to other bank accounts.
“We have not seen this novel NFC relay technique in any previously discovered Android malware,” the researchers said. In addition to the technique used by the NGate malware, an attacker with physical access to the payment cards can copy and emulate them. This technique could be used by an attacker who try reading cards through purses, wallets, backpacks or smartphone cases containing cards without supervision, especially in public and crowded places.
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