Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
2026-08-23T20:52:04Z•f07bceb63a157c669ccb51c1bab19936ef6e6295e82e3576cbe4efbc056f47a8
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What happened
A WIRED security roundup covering major cybersecurity, privacy, surveillance, AI safety, critical infrastructure, aviation, and data-exposure stories. Topics include alleged cyber operations by Volt Typhoon and North Korean actors, vulnerabilities in Zoom, children's smartwatches, AI browsers and agents, aircraft systems, exposed facial images, misuse of government databases, water-utility attacks, phishing, ransomware, and expanding biometric surveillance. The supplied metadata does not provide enough technical detail to confidently map incidents to specific CVEs.
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