Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
2026-08-22T20:52:04Z•37950285fce23d6ca69c7570b9547636378e265ceab4094b0523324eac34f445
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What happened
A WIRED security roundup covering vulnerabilities and abuse across contactless payment cards, critical infrastructure, biometric surveillance, AI agents and browsers, aviation systems, Zoom, smartwatches, exposed databases, phishing, ransomware, and state-sponsored intrusion campaigns. Several stories describe high-impact unauthorized access or surveillance, but the document is an aggregation without enough technical detail to map most items to specific CVEs.
Why it matters
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- 2026-08-22T20:52:04Z
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