Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes

The Register
Aug 12, 2026, 11:05 am103 pts
A new social engineering and malware campaign targets Android users, stealing card details to make payments or withdraw cash. Group-IB discovered the campaign, calling it WindRelay, and found that several successful attacks were carried out on European victims within the space of a 13-minute phone call. The…

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