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Samsung Pay has a vulnerability that facilitates the theft of funds

Samsung Pay, payment platform, has grown important to reaching more and more territories. It is only a matter of time before it reaches Mexico and other nations of Latin America, because of alleged security that has its own system to keep protected their funds, however, a new vulnerability reveals that it is possible to steal funds from there.

Through an alarming video, through the YouTube channel of expert security Salvador Mendoza, found in real time the existence of a vulnerability, where it is possible to take advantage of the Samsung Pay transaction system to drain funds from the credit card, without having direct access to the terminal, or the bank details of the victim :

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Hollow security leverages the generation system of Tokens on Samsung Pay, which function as units of credits for transactions. The problem, as outlined, is that the generation of each Token system really is limited and predictable in the order of their sequence, so this system could infringe to generate more, taking resources from the card linked to your device.

In the video we see how Mendoza comes even to the extent of use this vulnerability to a contact of his, located in Mexico, where there is not officially the service, leverage generated Tokens.

It’s a strange and striking, subject of which Samsung have not said nothing in this regard.

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