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NFC

15 articles

Fake apps, NFC skimming attacks, and other Android issues in 2026
  • Android

The perfect storm of Android threats

NFC relay attacks, pre-installed Trojans, and other nasties ruining the Android experience in 2026.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • January 27, 2026

Direct and reverse NFC relay attacks being used to steal money
  • NFC

NFC skimming attacks

How criminals exploit the familiar “tap your phone to pay” feature to steal your money.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • January 13, 2026

How to guard against NFC carding theft
  • NFC

NFC carders hide behind Apple Pay and Google Wallet

Cybercriminals are inventing new ways to swipe money from payment cards by using credentials phished online or over the phone. Sometimes, just holding your card to your phone is enough to leave you penniless.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • April 4, 2025

Unsaflok: how to forge keycards for Saflok locks
  • locks

Unsaflok: vulnerable locks on three million hotel room doors

dormakaba Saflok locks — used on around three million doors across 13,000 hotels — are vulnerable to an attack that involves forging electronic keycards.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 24, 2024

VoltSchemer: attacks on wireless chargers through the power supply
  • wireless charging

Attacks on wireless chargers: how to “fry” a smartphone

VoltSchemer attacks on wireless Qi chargers using modified power sources can “fry” smartphones and other devices, as well as issue commands to voice assistants.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • February 28, 2024

How to protect funds being stolen from bank cards with a chip and NFC
  • safe money

How cybercriminals steal funds from bank cards — and how to protect yourself from such theft

We investigate why chip cards are no panacea, and what precautions should be taken when making a payment.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • March 10, 2023

  • biochip

#BionicManDiary entry 006: Evgeny Chereshnev talks Internet of Us at Campus Party Brazil

Since the dawn of mankind, our species has been full of dreamers with a quest for unlocking the unknown. Through the years, we searched for it in alchemy, ancient rituals

  • Marvin the Robot

  • February 2, 2016

  • bank cards

Are contactless payments safe?

“Your total is $12.95,”says the cashier at the local supermarket. I take out my wallet to perform a familiar tap on the POS terminal, wait a second, then hear the

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • July 29, 2015

  • biochip

#BionicManDiary entry 005: The one which offers 10 answers to the question: ‘What purpose does this biochip serve?’

From the moment of the biochip injection I was repeatedly asked the same, almost Shakespearean, questions: “Once I decide to become a cyborg, how will my current routine change? What’s

  • Evgeny Chereshnev

  • June 19, 2015

  • biochip

#BionicManDiary Entry 004: The one in which Star Wars turned to be much closer than in the galaxy far, far away

Today we will relate a Kaspersky Lab implantation experiment to a comprehensible, and culturally relevant concept – the use of Jedi Force™. This might surprise you, but with the current

  • Evgeny Chereshnev

  • May 15, 2015

#BionicManDiary Entry 003 — The one where I bypassed the smartphone's password
  • Android

#BionicManDiary Entry 003 – The one where I bypassed the smartphone’s password

#BionicManDiary Entry 003 – The one where I bypassed the smartphone’s password protection whereas had intended to do a completely different thing

  • Evgeny Chereshnev

  • March 18, 2015

  • Android

Samsung Pay: An Early Examination of Security

Samsung Pay is set to come out in South Korea and the U.S. this summer. The company isn’t saying much, but we tried to find out what we could about security on the platform

  • Brian Donohue

  • March 13, 2015

#BionicManDiary , Entry 002 — The one where the chip started to toss and turn at night
  • biochip

#BionicManDiary Entry 002 — The one where the chip started to toss and turn at night

During my first two weeks of the biochip experience I had time to mull over a lot of things. In this post I’m going to touch upon the subject of form factor.

  • Evgeny Chereshnev

  • March 6, 2015

  • biochip

#BionicManDiary, entry 001: the story of how a chip was implanted into my body

The story of how a biochip was implanted into my hand and why I needed it.

  • Evgeny Chereshnev

  • February 26, 2015

  • Apple Pay

Apple Pay: is it safe to pay with your iPhone?

On September 9th, Apple showed some new devices and its own payment system, which utilizes an NFC chip, Touch ID sensor and Passbook app. So we had a try to find out how it works, what it gives us and how well this system is protected.

  • Alex Savitsky

  • September 10, 2014

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