Relay fraud — a category of schemes that abuse the near-field communication, or NFC, technology that enables tap-to-pay — is having a resurgence this spring, according to Visa's latest biannual threat ...

As contactless payments become ubiquitous, fraudsters are evolving new tactics to exploit them. A Near Field Communication (NFC) relay attack is one such threat. It intercepts and relays the ...

According to Kaspersky telemetry, the number of NFC-based attacks on Android smartphones aimed at stealing victims’ funds have surged by 188% in the first four months of 2026, compared with the same ...

The attacker then used this data to perform ATM transactions. If this method failed, the attacker had a fallback plan to transfer funds from the victims’ accounts to other bank accounts. “We haven’t ...