Russian police bust bank-account hacking gang that used NFCGate-based malware

Russian police dismantled a criminal group that used malicious mobile apps built on NFCGate to remotely harvest bank card credentials and withdraw funds across much of Russia; the scheme involved social-engineering phone calls, distribution via WhatsApp/Telegram, and instructing victims to tap cards to phones during fake authorization, with preliminary losses reported at over 200 million rubles and earlier estimates attributing up to 1.6 billion rubles stolen via NFCGate variants.