Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
2026-08-23T08:52:06Z•25c15380b2a78c70b997c4aef83bb306ce4169daa8e381993094b6ab3a11e6a0
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What happened
A WIRED Security feed covering major cybersecurity, privacy, surveillance, AI safety, and critical-infrastructure risks. Notable topics include aircraft and Zoom device compromise, exposed facial-image databases, child smartwatch stalking, attacks on utilities and suppliers, North Korean intrusions, rogue AI agents, prompt-injection and AI-browser abuse, phishing, ransomware, biometric surveillance, and government misuse of sensitive databases. The collection is primarily threat-intelligence reporting rather than a single vulnerability disclosure, and no specific CVE identifiers are provided.
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- wired_security
- Record identifier
- 25c15380b2a78c70b997c4aef83bb306ce4169daa8e381993094b6ab3a11e6a0
- Enrichment time
- 2026-08-23T08:52:06Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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