Authorities in Russia report that they dismantled a group using NFCGate-based malware distributed through messaging apps to collect card data and perform unauthorized ATM withdrawals.
Reported losses exceed 200M rubles, and researchers continue to track increasingly advanced NFCGate variants used in financial fraud across multiple regions.
What detection or policy mechanisms do you think can most effectively limit the misuse of open-source NFC tooling?
Source: https://therecord.media/russian-police-bust-banking-hackers-nfcgate-based-malware
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