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NFC Relay Attacks on Smartphones Surged 188% in Early 2026, Kaspersky Finds

Kaspersky blocked 35,600 NFC relay attacks on Android devices from January to April 2026 — a 188% spike versus the same period in 2025 — driven by a shift to harder-to-detect reverse NFC fraud schemes.

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NFC Relay Attacks on Smartphones Surged 188% in Early 2026, Kaspersky Finds

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I'm a web developer based in Singapore, originally from the Philippines. I write about whatever I'm currently interested in — Asian dramas, anime, manga, donghua, Philippine tech and lifestyle, software projects I'm building, and occasionally other things. There's no central theme. The only common thread is that I found it worth thinking about.

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